Quotes About Detachment

And so the pair of them went on in the big, draughty house, with the carriages rushing in the square beyond, irritating each other as only two people who are united by blood and detached by temperament can do.

Why trip off some random person in Idaho that doesn't feel my vibe? Like, no thank you. Stay in your life; I'll stay in mine.

This man must let go.

I'm okay...in that kind of dead inside way

When the Sufi Abû Sa'îd ibn Abî-l-Khayr was asked what Sufism entailed he replied: "Whatever you have in your mind—forget it; whatever you have in your hand—give it; whatever is to be your fate—face it!

The Sufi is interested in neither this world nor the next, in neither heaven nor hell. He will pay any price to reach Reality in this life. The price is that "everything has to go," and like any mental belief, the values of good and bad can be a limitation. Even the desire to renounce must be left behind. One Sufi poet wrote: "On the hat of poverty three renouncements are inscribed: 'Quit this world, quit the next world, quit quitting.

Be in this world as if you are a traveller, a passer-by, with your clothes and shoes full of dust. Sometimes you sit under the shade of a tree, sometimes you walk in the desert. Be always a passer-by, for this is not home. – Hadith of the Prophet

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.

I will not ask where thou liest low, Nor gaze upon the spot; There flowers or weeds at will may grow, So I behold them not

Release what no longer serves you.

I don't get attached… There's no place for it in my world.

Emotionally detach, she ordered herself, no matter that he smells good and has a body you want to lick like an ice cream cone.

I declared her brain frozen and assumed command of the local Warden detachment, which was handy, since it consisted of only me anyway.

It's irrational and childish for me to be upset, and I don't care.

You are in the world, but not to be tied to the world.

I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly.

The notion of general devastation had for Maria a certain sedative effect (the rattlesnake in the playpen, that was different, that was particular, that was punitive), suggested an instant in which all anxieties would be abruptly gratified, and between the earthquake prophecy and the marijuana and the cheerful detachment of the woman whose house was in the Tajunga Wash, she felt a kind of resigned tranquility.

No point carrying useless ballast. It won't change a thing.

It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what you don't care about.

There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.

It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done and do it coolly.

I'm always sad to see a relationship not work, but what happens between two people is not my business.

Reality has exiled me; I am no longer bound by it's laws.

Do not think about your problems too much, because your Problems don't really care about you!