Quotes About Detachment

We talked about this before. The rare beauty of nonattachment.

Charlotte, having seen his bodyBorne before her on a shutter,Like a well-conducted person,Went on cutting bread and butter.

Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it.

An asana should be a kind of meditation in form or movement. Therefore, we should always put our minds into a sacred space of silence, observation, and detachment while performing Yoga.

I think the way to stop it is to shrug it off. Or take it with your tongue in your cheek. Sure, that's the system. At any rate, it's the system that works for you. It's the automatic control board that keeps you out there where nothing matters, where it's only you and the keyboard and nothing else. Because it's gotta be that way. You gotta stay clear of anything serious.

Detach from intellectual knowledge ... and return to clarity and calm,

I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life.

Always remember that you belong to no one, and no one belongs to you. Reflect that some day you will suddenly have to leave everything in this world - so make the acquaintanceship of God now.

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.

I've had no ­contact with my daughter for years. That's her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don't want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.

However strong or beautiful this body may be, its culmination is in those three pounds of ashes. And still people are so attached to it. Glory be to God.

I have learned to hold all things loosely, so God will not have to pry them out of my hands.

In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all suffering. It is the cause of repeated births and deaths. It is the obstacle in the way of liberation.

When we detach the Word of God from the heart of God, we miss the point of God.

I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.

If we let go of our likes and dislikes, we will become fit vessels to receive the God's ever flowing grace.

In Sadhana there will be internal talk with God. You will give up all attachments and at­tach only to God.

Many, however, gives themselves to God, but preserve still in their hearts some attachment to creatures, which prevents them from belonging entirely to God.

It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand!

To pray with your fists closed means you're hanging onto something. Let it go. Open your hands to God.

Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.