Quotes About Detachment

When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.

The end of desire is the end of sorrow.

The only thing required of you is to allow all your raging desires to relax into preferences. Then everything will be done through you and for you, not by you.

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

Having realized that you cannot influence the results, pay no attention to your desires and fears. Let them come and go. Don't give them the nourishment of interest and attention.

The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

Live joyfully, without desire.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire.

When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.

Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.

The warrior knows that he is free to choose his desires, and he makes these decisions with courage, detachment, and - sometimes - with just a touch of madness.

You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.

All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being.

Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.

It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.

There's not much to be done about the impossibility. One must instead get rid of the desire.

The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

When you leave the desires behind, you will find the graveyards ahead!

While a man desires a woman, His mind is boundAs closely as a calf to its mother.As you would pluck an autumn lily, Pluck the arrow of desire.