Quotes About Detachment

A pure soul must never grow attached to any one thing.

He wasn't preoccupied, he was unoccupied. He had detached himself from the world. And her job was to reconnect him. To bring him back and show him his place in the web of humanity.

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

So he had thrust her out of his heart as he always did with anyone who tried to stay there too long.

So he left her, and she was alone. Very few people cared for her, and she for very few people. She remained alone with herself, waiting.

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

Mr Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. One wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. Don't get connected up. If you get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! "Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that

This dew-like life will fade away; avoid involvement in superfluous things.

as long as there is a hope or expectation of some result to be derived from zazen, then zazen is tainted.

Detachment doesn't mean you should ignore form; it means you have to attach to form through and through. A form may bother you, but you need form because you love truth, you love peace, you love life itself.

From that day to this, I have made it a rule to throw into the wastebasket all the problems that I can no longer do anything about.

He registered a dizzy 7.6 mmv over Brodmann 32, the area of abstractive activity. Since that time I have learned that a reading over 6 generally means that a person has so abstracted himself from himself and from the world around him, seeing things as theories and himself as a shadow, that he cannot, so to speak, reenter the lovely ordinary world. Such a person, and there are millions, is destined to haunt the human condition like the Flying Dutchman.

I didn't respond to him. Couldn't speak at all. Couldn't look at his self-mutilation--not even the clean, bandaged version of it. Instead, I looked at my own rough, stained house painter's hand. They seemed more like puppets than hands. I had no feelings in it either.

the spoils are carried along in the procession. They are called cultural treasures, and a historical materialist views them with cautious detachment.

Look to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of ere, and that garbage is weighing you down.

His eyes are looking far away. He is part of the scene but detached from it, an observer and commentator who is immersed but marginalized. He is, like Leonardo, of this world but apart from it.

Buddhist days was that material possessions often cluttered life rather than enriched it.

Debo dejar los asuntos molestos en manos de personas objetivas.

From being a romantic youth who fancied himself a footloose bohemian he had settled, with but a few stabs at ironic detachment, into a bourgeois life with a doting hausfrau and a richly wallpapered home filled with heavy Biedermeier furniture. He was no longer restless. He was comfortable.

It was important to avoid attachment to material objects. Our consumer desires are unhealthy.

If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.

Becoming the observer (step back) you begin to live in process, trusting where our source is taking you. You begin to detach from the outcome. That detachment allows you to stop fighting and allows things to just come to you; you no longer make things happen but allow them to show up. The fight is gone!

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.