Quotes About Detachment

It is not easy to explain how I felt while I read, but I will try. No doubt you, as a reader, will understand. It appeared I found myself in a place where no one could bother me, where no one could reach me. I grew impervious to all the noises around me.

What happens to you doesn't belong to you, only half concerns you. It's not yours. Not yours only.

What happens to you doesn't belong to you, only half concerns you. It's not yours. Not yours only. —CLAUDIA RANKINE

To truly love is to have the courage to walk away and let the other person who wishes to be free go no matter how much it hurts.

La loro distaccata crudeltà, la loro istintiva capacità di individuare il punto debole nell'armatura emotiva di una vittima, il modo in cui la loro stessa amicizia veniva rafforzata dal sadismo: riconobbe questi come esempi di un comportamento umano, non divino.

For me, generally speaking, I don't like to make a big deal out of stuff.

I am a Gemini. We have split personalities. While at work, I am fully in it. I can be attached yet very detached. I have no feelings of remorse.

Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.

There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.

I'm done with men. I have a hamster. That's all I need.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.

Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.

... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.

Wouldnt it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt... and not get emotionally involved?

The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.

The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.

Even though the dying was still going on, they had to force themselves to think about it like the Irish potato famine, or like what had happened to the peoples of the New World when Columbus had arrived and infected them with a slew of deadly diseases. Regret, even horror were appropriate. But detachment was necessary.

Regret, even horror were appropriate. But detachment was necessary.

A true Master does not "give up" something. A true Master simply sets it aside, as he would do with anything for which he no longer has any use

No longer will you worship human love, or success, money, or power, nor any symbol thereof. You will set aside these things as a child sets aside toys. Not because they are unworthy, but because you have outgrown them.