Quotes About Detachment

Detachment from this world turns you into a spectator and you know the depths of awareness. Loneliness is like death, as if you died to society. They see you as a ghost.

Even if you have not awakened, if you realize that your perceptions and activities are all like dreams and you view them with detachment, not giving rise to grasping and rejecting discrimination, then this is virtually tantamount to awakening from the dream.

Perhaps detachment cannot be achieved by anyone. Even Gautama Buddha was addicted to meditation.

The deeply spiritual man can no longer bear all the noise of the public. Thus, avoiding general politics and the immense masses in his service.

The judge presented in a court takes everything seriously, but nothing personal.

You have been taught not to take anything seriously in life. In other words, pay no attention. Now I tell you to take everything seriously, but nothing personal.

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

With time, material things—once we let go—have a way of not having the significance we've pinned to them.

moments later, but she stayed far away from

She has found delight in freedom from attachment

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

Own anything you want in your writing and then let it go.

After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.

And if when everything ends, nothing is left in my hands...that's alright.

Maybe what I want is to cut all ties with everybody. The thread or something that keeps me connected to the world, the worthless proof that I exist.

Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the characteristics we associate with mature discourse were amplified by typography, which has the strongest possible bias toward exposition: a sophisticated ability to think conceptually, deductively and sequentially; a high valuation of reason and order; an abhorrence of contradiction; a large capacity for detachment and objectivity; and a tolerance for delayed response.

That is why a good reader does not cheer an apt sentence or pause to applaud even an inspired paragraph. Analytic thought is too busy for that, and too detached.

One never read of Zen masters being taken in by scams. They didn't crave anything, and, therefore, con artists couldn't set the hook.

Judas, the one whom the world in its ignorance has blackened, will when man awakes from his undisciplined state, be placed on high for God is love and no greater love has a man than tins — that he lay down his life for a friend. Until man lets go of that which he is now conscious of being, he will not become that which he desires to be; and Judas is the one who accomplishes this through suicide or detachment.

Man lives by committing himself to invisible states, by fusing his imagination with what he knows to be other than himself, and in this union he experiences the results of that fusion. No one can lose what he has save by detachment from the state where the things experienced have their natural life.

Emotional disturbances, especially suppressed emotions, are the causes of all disease. To feel intensely about a wrong without voicing or expressing that feeling is the beginning of disease – disease – in both body and environment. Do not entertain the feeling of regret or failure for frustration or detachment from your objective results in disease.

The purpose of practicing detachment is to separate us from our present reactions to life and attach us to our aim in life.

Isn't that the greatest gift in the world-just not to care?

Isn't that the greatest gift in the world - just not to care? I feel so grateful for it.