Quotes About Detachment

do everything as if it were the only thing in the world that mattered, while all the time knowing that it doesn't matter at all.

Meditation begins to open up your life, so that you're not caught in self-concern, just wanting life to go your way.

I don't hate people, i assume they are dead!

Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves.

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.

PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this and that.

Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.

During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.

Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world.

I no longer hold you responsible for how I feel.

Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.

as though you have to have him, run. He won't do you any good.

The more I hurt, the more I knew I loved, and that felt like a good thing. So that I'm letting go of the pain means I'm also letting go of the love.

You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You're at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you're staring at a screen

No longer possessed by possessions, we may become open enough to become possessed by God.

But then he put aside the awkward encounter, which his mind allowed him to do quite easily. He could compartmentalize at an astonishing level. It came from not giving a shit.

He could compartmentalize at an astonishing level. It came from not giving a shit. And

humans wrestled endlessly with their own overpowering egos. Some tried suppressing selfness, seeking detachment. Others subsumed personal ambition in favor of a greater whole—family, religion, or a leader. Later they passed through a phase in which individualism was extolled as the highest virtue, teaching their young to inflate the ego beyond all natural limits or restraint.

If you can't do something about a situation, there's no point in worrying about it.

Everything I've ever let go of had claw marks on it.