Quotes About Detachment

The war consciousness is purposely cultivated to guide the male away from the natural, healthy balances between masculine and feminine energies, and toward more unbalanced and detached psychologies.

If you want to rise, drop everyone that is weighing you down.

As an actor, you're lucky if you get a month before a project starts. There are times when you get a day before a project starts. So to be able to really sit and inhabit that mind and the story is really beneficial, and it really helps for me to be able to then compartmentalize as we're shooting and detach and go somewhere else.

I want to stay away from controversies.

I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.

I don't regret a single moment of staying away from the camera.

When you operate from a nothing-left-to-lose mentality, it's essentially the same thing as the 'Law of Least Resistance.' You have a goal in mind, but you're not emotionally attached to the outcome. You're focusing on all of the little steps inbetween.

He was not a particularly emotional man: he had never chosen engagement when the role of observer was available.

Extinguish desire and suffering goes with it.

He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

Forsake the world and cling to the shadows.

Only catatonics and coma patients can persevere in a dignified withdrawal from life's rattle and hum.

Sometimes you just have to keep some distance between yourself and reality, even if it means becoming a little less human.

Sometimes you just have to keep some distance from yourself and reality, even if it means becoming a little less human.

One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of imagination which suffuses theme and style alike with that grotesquerie and disquieting distortion characteristic of morbid vision. Only a cynic can create horror—for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving demonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock them.

When you notice yourself fretting over something, you have accomplished the do portion. Now observe the behavior that you want to change. In your observation of yourself worrying, you separate yourself from the act of worrying. Now realize that the emotions you are experiencing have no effect on the problem over which you're fretting. Release yourself from the emotions as best as you can — that is the correction portion — and try to look at the problem as an Observer.

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state

Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.

We may hold the world as a posy in our hand, but it must not lie too near our heart.

Caesar does not love, nor does he inspire love. He diffuses an equable sense of ordered good will, a passionless energy that creates without fever, and which expends itself without self-examination or self-doubt.

Si deseas cada gozo, renuncia por completo a todo apego. Abandonando todo apego por completo, se halla el éxtasis más excelente.

He is untainted by elaborations of the eight mundane concerns.77

In the past I have been preoccupied with worthless, ruinous pursuits. Now I shall regard my own self as the enemy and shall call upon all eight classes of worldly gods, demigods, and demons, and all eighty thousand families of obstructive forces to withdraw their support of this self.