Quotes About Detachment

You'll know that whatever happens isn't your problem because you no longer have the responsibility to see that others do what they should.

Love is like the fire; its glow is devotion, its flame is wisdom, its smoke is attachment, and its ashes detachment. Flame rises from glow, so it is with wisdom, which rises from devotion. When love's fire produces its flame it illuminates the devotee's path in life like a torch, and all darkness vanishes.

Ich arbeite einfach, ohne mich um die Ergebnisse zu kümmern. Die mir übertragene Arbeit nach bestem Können zu verrichten, ist meine Befriedigung, und die Auswirkungen überlasse ich dem Urgrund aller Dinge. 

Love is a blessing, but it turns into a curse in attachment.

Don't get sucked in, Dave was always saying to me. Kind of like Helder's container idea: Notice everything, but don't buy into it. Hold it.

The opposite of love is not hate, I believe. It's simply no longer caring.

Irony has always seemed the best approach to life, the best way to keep it at arm's length.

Drop Out--detach yourself from the external social drama which is as dehydrated and ersatz as TV. Turn On--find a sacrament which returns you to the temple of God, your own body. Go out of your mind. Get high. Tune In--be reborn. Drop back in to express it. Start a new sequence of behavior that reflects your vision.

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.

Now they broke my toothbrush, I don't own anything.

I'm learning not to hope for what I can't control...

I will love you as a cufflink loves to drop from its shirt and explore the party for itself.

Companies are run by computers. Profit margins are sliced thin. And no manager dare raise his eyes from his accounts long enough to learn the names of his staff. It's the price we pay for progress.

When one's head is gone one doesn't weep over one's hair!

Rest requires us to give up any ideas about control: controlling our experiences, controlling our feelings and controlling how we rest. Rest is fundamentally effortless and detached from experience.

To understand everything is to love nothing

Not even Fanny had tears for aunt Norris, not even when she was gone for ever.

I should not mind anything at all.

She liked him too little to care for his approbation.

Así, de manera sosegada, sin gran interés por ninguna de las partes, siguieron hablando, ambos desalentados y con la cabeza puesta en otras cosas.

Other people's behavior is none of my business.

Other people's behavior is non of my business.

Death isn't such a big deal when it's happening to someone else.

There was no expression to his face. He looked like he'd seen it all and didn't think much of it.