Quotes About Detachment

I can't tolerate cell phones," I say. "For health reasons." "Yech," he grunts. "Those things ruined the country. I don't know how, but they convinced the people that they should spend their whole lives inside a screen the size of a playing card. I'd take a jail cell over that bullshit any time.

The old man bridled at this. All his life he had gone out of his way to avoid any situation that might be mistaken for a friendship.

Goodsir rolled the corpse over while Fitzjames removed his jacket and beat out the flames rising from the dead man's face and hair. Harry Goodsir felt as if he were watching all this from a great distance. The professional part of his mind noticed with cool detachment that the furnace, as poorly banked as the low coal flames had been, had melted the man's eyes, burned away his nose and ears, and turned his face into the texture of an overbaked, bubbling raspberry flan.

If someone comes I go out to meet him but not for his sake

Ahora miraba el mundo como algo remoto, con lo que yo no tenía nada que ver y de lo que nada esperaba, y de hecho nada deseaba: en pocas palabras, no tenía nada que ver con ese mundo, y difícilmente algún día tendría que ver algo con él; por tanto, pensé que así debía de verse después de la muerte.

He who wants the world must first escape from it.

When myriad experiences leave no trace, how great! To practice like this is liberation.

Someone who desires to be fully alive has to do nothing but observe without inner commentary the automatic mechanisms that stop him from tasting the tremoring vibration of life. This observation alone is the key to our liberation. It requires naked and silent awareness, detached from all objectives.

"Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, because they don't."

You only lose what you cling to.

Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.

Let go of the past. Let go of the future. Let go of the present. Proceed to the opposite shore with a free mind, leaving behind all conditioned things.

In order to be free, we must learn how to let go.

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

Being alone means there is no one else in this world

We're all alone in this world.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Let go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing You go beyond sorrow.

Forget your sadness, anger, grudges and hatred. Let them pass like smoke caught in a breeze. Do not indulge yourself in such feelings.

I have never known anyone important enough to consume me in anger beyond a few hours. Better to depart their existence before they poison your own.

If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.

The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.

relinquish him. From then

It is difficult to be enthusiastic about Aristotle, because it was difficult for him to be enthusiastic about anything. His motto is nil admirari - to admire or marvel at nothing.