Quotes About Detachment

Senin i?in bir bak?ma kolayd? babac???m. Birçok ?eyi yok sayarak belirli bir düzen içinde ya?ad?n. Sinemaya gitmedin. Hiç roman okumad?n. Zeytinya?l? enginar yemedin. Yabanc? ülke özlemi çekmedin. Kimseye hediye almad?n. Evde ku?konmazdan ba?ka bitki yeti?tirmedin.

I don't like people, I don't like interruptions, and I don't like you.

If you can do something to change the circumstances, why be upset about it? And if you cannot do anything to change the circumstances, why be upset about it?

How should the little creatures, the awakened worlds, reach out to knowledge of the whole cosmos, and of the divine? Instead they must play their own part in the drama, and appreciate their own tragic end with godlike detachment and relish.

She's a loner, she doesn't care about being around people. So neither failure nor success concerns her.

I don't collect anything.

She does not attach much importance to passing events.' Harriet laughed. 'You have only to let them pass and they lose their importance.

Prendere le distanze dal proprio lavoro, sia nello scatto che durante la selezione, è un imperativo, seppur inumano!

We should remember that by being well integrated with any matter or thing, we will naturally come to be liberated from our attachment to them.

Running after things is called attachment; following the Heavenly Principle is samadhi.

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn't matter how, I'll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won't mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.

I have tried insofar as possible to avoid getting involved in the sordid complications of human beings. I have been afraid of being sucked down into their bottomless whirlpool.

I am congenitally unable to take much interest in other people,

If you don't give a damn what the rest of the world is up to, you can be alone for a hundred years—a thousand years—with no difficulty whatsoever.

No less than myself, though in a different way, he was entirely removed from the activities of the human beings of the world. We were of one species if only in that we were both disoriented.

Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. Everything passes.

No sentía ni entusiamo ni aversión por lo que hacía. Mi letargo era tal, que simplemente me dejaba llevar por lo que consideraban mejor para mí quienes me rodeaban.

I thought, "As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn't matter how, it'll be all right. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won't mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.

I thought, "As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn't matter how, I'll be all right". If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won't mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.

Our Lord Himself, not being detached from things externally. Our Lord was amazingly in and out among ordinary things; His detachment was on the inside towards God. External detachment is often an indication of a secret vital attachment to the things we keep away from externally.