Quotes About Detachment

Neville, I mean this in the nicest way possible, but, I really don't care.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

I don't want to get involved" has become our national motto. -Mike McIntyre

Live with high intention and low attachment

The perspective I have on it now is that when I was trading my own account, it was like trading monopoly money. My trading capital was just something I kept score with. I detached myself emotionally from it.

For instance, the near enemy of love is attachment. It masquerades as love, it feels like love, but it is essentially different.

Because love, compassion, and joy can lead to excessive attachment, their warmth needs to be balanced with equanimity. Because equanimity can lead to excessive detachment, its coolness needs to be balanced with love, compassion, and joy. Established together, these radiant qualities express mental harmony.

To protect the separate self, we push certain things away, while to bolster it we hold on to other things and identify with them. A

identify with everything so easily—with your body, your thoughts, your opinions, your roles—and so you suffer. I have released all identification.

The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.

Just something else to let go of.

If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free. Ajahn Chah

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.

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After a certain span of years, a man who has no family of his own becomes if not dangerous, then impervious.

Isn't it the most blissful thing in the world to be away from everything you have ever known--to be so far away that you don't even know yourself anymore and you're not sure you ever want to come back to all of the things you're a part of?

Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go.

It is primarily the love of ourselves as destiny, the affection for our own destiny that can convince us to undertake this work to become habitually detached from our own opinions and our own imaginations (not to eliminate but to detach ourselves from them!), so that all of our cognitive energy will be focused upon a search for the truth of the object, no matter what it should be. This love is the ultimate inner movement, the supreme emotion that persuades us to seek true virtue.

In the Gospel, there is a sentence that expresses the same ethical imperative in a more fascinating way: "Blessed are the poor in spirit: the reign of God is theirs" (Matt. 5:3). But who are the poor? The poor are those who have nothing to defend, who are detached from those things that they seem to possess, so that their lives are not dedicated to affirming their own possession.

SHORT FORM OF THE SERENITY PRAYER—FUCK IT.

After that night, which was in late December, I was completely worn out. I did not walk as often, and when I walked did not see what was around me: though I looked up at the housefronts, at the sky, again and again I found myself watching the pavement that rolled out under my feet.

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf.

Sometimes I think we forget that we're meant to pick up and go when the well runs dry [...] You stay put for too long, you get weighed down by things, things you don't need. It's true. Then your life becomes this pathetic accumulation of stuff. Emotional and physical junk.

If they make the choice to walk over me rather than walk with me, I'll have to love them from afar.