Quotes About Detachment

The more attachments we accumulate, the more we need this inner cleansing. If we have mental baggage, we need to unlearn; if we have emotional dependencies, we need to let them go; if we have possessions that clutter up our lives, we need to give them away.

Some jobs in medicine require a certain ruthlessness to complete successfully; detachment is necessary to inflict pain in the process of effecting a healing

I luxuriated in that delightful feeling that comes when we observe someone having to do something unpleasant that we are not required to do ourselves.

I don't associate myself with anything. I don't associate myself with where I'm from or where I am.

Have a mind that's open to everything, get attached to nothing.

Money, power, is beautiful if you take just as fun. OK? If you don't get attached.

I try really hard not to be attached to success.

In this business, you can't get too attached to something.

When I started my spiritual journey, I realized I had to cut away from all attachment.

I don't care much about society.

Sometimes when you don't care, people are attracted to that.

I don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine.

I usually get out of my roles easily when dramas end.

Enjoy the films I do, get entertained, get your money's worth, and when you leave the theatre, leave it all behind!

Peace of mind come when we let go of attachments.

Christ is both the One and the Many. William Thompson states that Merton's view of the transcultural Christ means the emergence of "a person of such inner calm and personal and cultural detachment that she is capable of recognizing and perspectivizing the genuine values present in every person and every culture.

Don't be afraid to walk away from things that are just not right for you.

We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.

And that's what makes me sure I did the right thing. Sometimes loving someone means you have to be willing to let them go.

Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.

The Central Committee will cut off its relations with [the undisciplined organization] and it will thereby cut off that organization from the entire world of revolution. The Central Committee will stop the flow of literature and of wherewithal to that organization. It will send into the field … its own detachment, and, having endowed it with the necessary resources, the Central Committee will proclaim that this detachment is the local committee.

Renouncing things is less difficult than people believe: it's all a matter of getting started. Once you've succeeded in dispensing with something you thought essential, you realize you can also do without something else, then without many other things.

Renouncing things is less difficult than people believe: it's all a matter of getting started. Once you've succeeded in dispensing with something you thought essential, you realize you can also do without something else, then without many other things. So here I am walking along this empty surface that is the world.

It's not that you expect anything in particular from this particular book. You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything.