Quotes About Detachment

Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve.

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

The pair of opposites do not effect a yogi - neither praise nor insult.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

A true Master does not "give up" something. A true Master simply sets it aside, as he would do with anything for which he no longer has any use.

He who must travel happily must travel light.

It's no use crying over spilt milkWhat's done, is done.

Letting go may sound so simple, but rarely is it a one-time thing. Just keep letting go, until one day it's gone for good.

I may appear stand off-ish but I'm not. I just let go of my attachment to things.

Taming attachment, does not mean becoming cold and disinterested. On the contrary, it means learning to have a composed control over our mind through understanding

If you don't know the person personally, then don't take it personally.

When you carry someone else's baggage, it's nearly impossible to get rid of your own. Drop it. Now.

When you are unhappy, discover what you are clinging to and let it go.

At a time when he really needed to let go, he was holding on. To Lace. To his stuff. Let go, let God. Come on, man.

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was.

305 "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."~

Since the big things find you no matter where you are, it's okay to unhook from your portable news source so you're not in the middle of what's happening every minute of the day. It doesn't mean you don't care; it means you care about yourself too.

HALF AN hour later, Richey James sits alone in the dressing room, smoking a cigarette and staring straight ahead. He's not saying anything. Is it because he treasures his guitars, that he never smashes them? "No, I dislike my guitar intensely," he sighs. "I can't even be bothered to smash the fucking thing. It doesn't deserve death...

I never get involved in anything and I don't make enemies either, I keep myself to myself.

let it go -- the smashed word broken open vow or the oath cracked length wise -- let it go it was sworn to go let them go -- the truthful liars and the false fair friends and the boths and neithers -- you must let them go they were born to go let all go -- the big small middling tall bigger really the biggest and all things -- let all go dear so comes love

This is my secret, he said. I don't mind what happens.