Quotes About Detachment

All conflict comes from attachment.

If you love someone, set them free.

Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't.

If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

it is a harder and a nobler task to preserve detachment in a crowd than in a cell; the little daily sacrifices of family life are often a greater trial than self-imposed mortifications.

Renunciation simply means a state of un-attachment. A big house and a new car should be enjoyed to their fullest so long as we accept them as things that can and will go away. We never really own anything; we hold title, rent, lease, use, and borrow things during our short visit here. Impermanence is just another name for perfection.

I care so much about everything that I care about nothing

Norwegian theologian O. Hallesby is "to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world or material surroundings as a whole in order that we may concentrate all our spiritual powers upon the unseen and eternal things."The

George Bernard Shaw once observed: "People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.

Sometimes we waste too much time to think about someone who doesn't even think about us for a second.

Don't ever worry about things that don't worry about you!

We have stood apart, studiously neutral.

La manera más eficaz de sacar a alguien de tu vida es echártelo encima. Cargarlo todo el tiempo, para que hasta cuando sonría te parezca insoportable.

Huizi barely called anyone. He didn't get too involved with the details of his friends' lives. He was private, shut tight like a fortress. His short crew-cut and refined manners gave him the air of a Buddhist monk. Huizi would say never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back.

Yvan's a very tolerant bloke, which of course, when it comes to relationships, is the worst thing you can be. Yvan's very tolerant because he couldn't care less.

Acknowledge. Accept. Let go.

May all beings abide in peace and equanimity, their minds free from attachment and aversion, and free from indifference.

renunciation is the start of our inner journey. Instead of fixating on external circumstances, we look within.

We all need to let go—especially of our preoccupations with ourselves.

Western men are openly hostile toward the Christian faith, I believe most are simply ambivalent toward it. What's more troubling, the men who do go to church seem to become more passive and detached by the

Don't complain, and don't explain." That is, don't complain about your emotionally impoverished history to your parents, because they will never validate your perspective of your childhood. Second, don't explain your quiet withdrawal from the family scene. Simply slip away as gracefully as possible and concentrate your efforts at developing relationships with people who support and embrace you.

The greater our attachment to that which is outside of ourselves, the greater is our overall level of fear and vulnerability to loss.