Quotes About Detachment

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports.

I don't care about the politics, I don't care about the practicality, I don't care about any of it.

It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.

I stay as far away from politics as possible, or any controversy.

Politics is not really my thing.

You can have anything you want, providing you first let go of wanting it.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

You must choose between your attachments and happiness.

Do not expect anything from any one.

Just let go of the need to care about whether it happens or not, then you are free from fear and can then concentrate on focusing.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to someone else.

We need, in other words, to learn how to enjoy things without feeling entitled to them and without clinging to them.

This, at any rate, is the advice Buddha gave to Anathapindika, a man of "unmeasurable wealth": "He that cleaves to wealth had better cast it away than allow his heart to be poisoned by it; but he who does not cleave to wealth, and possessing riches, uses them rightly, will be a blessing unto his fellows.

The Stoics fell somewhere between the Cyrenaics and the Cynics: They thought people should enjoy the good things life has to offer, including friendship and wealth, but only if they did not cling to these good things. Indeed, they thought we should periodically interrupt our enjoyment of what life has to offer to spend time contemplating the loss of whatever it is we are enjoying. Affiliating

Notice that the advice that we ignore what other people think of us is consistent with the Stoic advice that we not concern ourselves with things we can't control.

Then we were both lectured by our guruji. He told us clearly what was expected of us: never again to use a vehicle, to take food only once a day, not to use Western medicine, to abstain from emotion, never to hurt any living creature. He told us we must not react to attacks, must not beg, must not cry, must not complain, must not demand, must not feel superiority, must learn not to be disturbed by illusory things.

Be attached to nothing and open to everything.

What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it…. It is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things;… to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it.

A sensible man keeps out of politics

There's a place you can get to. It's hard to find and it's easy to fall out of, but there it is, that place. It is the sweetest place you've never been and it's called I Don't Give a Crap. Book yourself a ticket.