Quotes About Detachment

What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure.

no need for you to get involved, Elenita.

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.

Snow girl was glad she had left her own feelings behind.

Go to hell, I'm reading. ~Archie Goodwin

Turn away from the things you don't love and don't give them any feeling, because they are fine as they are but they have no place in your life.

Quer pouco: terás tudo. Quer nada: serás livre. O mesmo amor que tenham por nós, quer-nos, oprime-nos.

Quer pouco: terás tudo. Quer nada: serás livre.

Glaisher emphasised the particular scientific virtues required by ballooning: meticulous care and accuracy, calmness and detachment, stoic self-discipline; and a kind of spiritual openness to the wonders of Creation.

All things are transient and subject to decay. To become attached to things leads to suffering. One can not truly say this belongs to me, or this is what I truly am. The answer to all things cannot be found in the outer world of things or self-concepts.

The Gnostic Christ (and the historical Jesus), like the Buddha, like Krishna, like Lao Tzu, taught that all material things are impermanent—whether they be riches, or one's own body. Attachment to that which is impermanent causes suffering. Give up attachment and suffering ceases.

The highest achievement results from mastering one's senses. Wisdom comes when we are no longer interested in worldly things.

Death is a fascinating lure to men who can stand aside and watch it operate on someone else. (from The Conqueror)

Death is a fascinating lure to men who can stand aside and watch it operate on someone else.

If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.

All Mature Spirituality Is About Letting Go

There are three primary things that we have to let go of. First is the compulsion to be successful. Second is the compulsion to be right—even, and especially, to be theologically right…. Finally there is the compulsion to be powerful, to have everything under control. I

So Jesus pulls no punches, saying you must "hate" your home base in some way and make choices beyond it.

Whenever we get defensive or go emotionally up and down, this is a sign that we are attached to a self-image.

All great spirituality is somehow about letting go.

As Carol Bialock writes in her poem, we cannot stop the drowning waters of our addictive culture from rising, but we must at least see our reality for what it is, seek to properly detach from it, build a coral castle, and learn to breathe under water. The New Testament called this salvation (some might call it enlightenment); the Twelve Step Program calls it recovery.

One of the major problems in the spiritual life is our attachment to our own self-image—either positively or negatively created. We have to begin with some kind of identity, but the trouble is that we confuse this idea of ourselves with who we actually are in God. Ideas about things are not the things in themselves. We all have to start by forming a self-image, but the problem is our attachment to it, our need to promote it and protect it and have others like it. What a trap!

I'm not hurting. That's the strange part. I don't mind losing the house, or anything in it. I know I should, and I'll probably feel better when I do, but right now I just feel bored. I'd even feel better if I thought there was some tragic flaw, some error in judgment I could trace everything to. If I could look back and say I'd missed a sign, and that if I hadn't, things would've been different.

you loved. You didn't love them any less, but it was nice not to have to lug them around. And since this was the way of things, why not let nature work in her favor?