Quotes About Detachment

if he does not desire any happiness, if he is free of all [attachment], of all fear, of all anger

It is a weakness to think that any one is dependent on me, and that I can do good to another. This belief is the mother of all our attachment, and through this attachment comes all our pain.

the doctrine of non-attachment.

Misery comes through attachment, not through work.

He who does not depend on anything, who is pure and active, who does not care whether good comes or evil, and never becomes miserable, who has given up all efforts for himself; who is the same in praise or in blame, with a silent, thoughtful mind, blessed with what little comes in his way, homeless, for the whole world is his home, and who is steady in his ideas, such a one is My beloved Bhakta." Such alone become Yogis.

To me the very essence of education is concentration of mind, not the collecting of facts. If I had to do my education over again, and had any voice in the matter, I would not study facts at all. I would develop the power of concentration and detachment, and then with a perfect instrument I could collect facts at will.

We must realize also that our so-called possessions are just toys which have been lent to us to play with for a little while. A

He reminds us that true renunciation is mental, not necessarily physical. We are not required to disown our husbands or wives and turn our children out of doors. We must only try to realize that they are not really ours; to love them as dwelling-places of Brahman, not as mere individuals.

Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.

The selfless and unattached man may live in the very heart of a crowded and sinful city; he will not be touched by sin.

Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment. Why

Buddha gave up his throne and renounced his position, that was true renunciation; but there cannot be any question of renunciation in the case of a beggar who has nothing to renounce.

To love anyone personally is bondage. Love all alike, then all desires fall off.

A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world - his heart to God and his hands to work.

Watching these happy beings for whom weeping was impossible, he had become incapable of grief; watching their inconsistencies, he had become incapable of knowing right from wrong; disregarded by them he had become incapable of disappointment.

But the overruling disconcertingness was to find himself unconcerned. It was as if some mysterious oil had been introduced into the workings of his mind. If a thought irked him, he thought of something else. If a project miscarried, a flooding serenity swept him beyond it. He lived a tranquil truant, dissociated from himself as though by a slight agreeable fever.

Es cortando con toda atadura sea cual sea, despersonalizándose de pies a cabeza, como el alma abismada en sí misma se muestra con todo del poder de su origen indecible.

W?a?ciwie wszystko mi jedno. Jestem wolnym cz?owiekiem, który zawis? wysoko nad miastem i z oddali z ?agodnym zdumieniem przygl?da si? dziwnym ludziom oraz ich dziwnym poczynaniom.

Lord, let us not hold tight to those earthly things we long for lest You be torn from our grasp.

note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]

Haley Joel Osment said "Party girl" which was a term they had for people who did not speak in a quiet monotone and were not severely detached.

Feelings are held, but not held on to.

Staying occupied is a socially sanctioned way of remaining distant from our pain.

Chögyam Trungpa, a contemporary Tibetan Buddhist teacher, writes, "The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.