Quotes About Detachment

True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

The happiest people I know are the ones who have learned how to hold everything loosely and have given the worrisome, stress-filled, fearful details of their lives into God's keeping.

But Lord Arglay, at once in contact and detached, at once faithless and believing, beheld all these things in the light of that fastidious and ironical goodwill which, outside mystical experience, is the finest and noblest capacity man has developed in and against the universe.

Any inhabitant with a negative attachment coefficient (in which case it is referred to as a coefficient of ironic detachment) will be placed on probation pending review of the individual's suitability for continued inclusion within the U31 diegetic space.

The task for staying unstuck is to stay unattached to the outcome and not look back with regret.

Take a deep breath and don't take any of it too seriously.

The truth is I never knew him well—only well enough to know that I didn't wish to know him better. •

it with their fingers out of my hands,

How strange and glorious it was to be anchored to nothing, to be free, in some particular way, for the first time in my life.

Being seen through, with wisdom and detachment. And being found, not to have a big booger hanging out of his nose, but to be of some mysterious value.

A boil is no big deal. On someone else's neck.

Let go or be dragged.

Sometimes the best way to hold onto something is to let it go.

Don't cry because it's over; Smile because that asshole is finally someone else's problem.

Don't make other people's issues your own

The way to live a happy beautiful life is to accept whatever comes and not care about what does not come.

When we go from waking state to sleep, we lose everything that we held in the waking state. Relationships and possessions are lost to us in sleep. We have to let them go.

If you practice, you will only become fatigued. When you are fatigued, you throw away everything. At that instant, you are free. To get rid of everything is freedom. Everything that you do suggests "Get rid of me." To get rid of desires is freedom, freedom from the function of the mind.

Susan was at a party with her husband, and she was feeling very jealous because he was showing a great deal of attention to another woman there. Susan's strong spiritual training, however, had taught her that feelings such as anger and. jealousy can and should be transmuted. She had learned how to do this by meditating, so she meditated until she felt detached from the situation. Soon, she was no longer feeling jealousy; she was feeling love.

I want to walk away from my bones and set them down on a counter like my keys after work.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Life would be easier for some people if it wasn't such a big deal

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.