Quotes About Detachment

She sat in her chair, eyes closed. She liked to be the last one to leave. She despised crowds, and their opinions as they left a performance, or worse, discussed the wait for the bathroom or where do you want to eat. It spoiled her mood. She was still in that other world, she would stay there as long as she possibly could, the parallel channels twining and tunneling through her cortex like coral.

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.

I try to go unnoticed. I don't watch the news or read what they say. I try to stay on the sidelines.

I'm emotionally untouchable.

I don't think I get that upset over things.

If a person doesn't like me or doesn't like my game, OK, that's how they feel. Can't be upset with it.

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.

Life is a river always flowing. do not hold onto things. work hard.

Do work of all kinds with a mind that is void and to the voidness surrender all of the fruits.

The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer

Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of lust, greed of gain, and anger. And this truth is with us!

Our work may be important, but we don't take it too seriously. Otherwise, we get attached to one relatively small thing and ignore the rest of life.

A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world - his heart to God and his hands to work.

It is the witness alone that can work without any desire, without any idea of going to heaven, without any idea of blame, without any idea of praise. The witness alone enjoys, and none else.

We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.

Remind yourself of the value of detaching from work that's out of your hands and committing to new work that wants to be born.

What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him.

The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.

You don't even realise how much you need Internet, but it really stops you from doing a lot.

The story of 'Mr. Robot' is really about this guy who's lonely - who's alone and feels so disconnected from the world.

I am over that phase where any kind of story would bother me, be it personal or professional. I just laugh it off and forget about it.

I have the strange ability to shut things out.

In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it.