Quotes About Detachment

You must be emptied of that with which you are full, so you may be filled with that whereof you are empty. Augustine

Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still Even among these rocks.

Misery is too self-absorbed to want much company.

the most powerful impression a person can make is that they don't care if they make an impression.

What are you, a Hindu?" he replied, "No, I'm an Undo" (another reason we chose this book's title). "Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go. It's there already until you disturb it. The purpose of all spiritual practices is to stop disturbing what you already have.

If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.

If it comes, let it come. If it goes, it's ok, let it go. Let things come and go. Don't let anything disturb your peace. Stay calm and carry on.

If it comes, let it come. If it goes, it's ok, let it go. Let things come and go. Stay calm, don't let anything disturb your peace, and carry on.

Get rid of all baggage of your past. You don't need this extra load. It can only slow you down and hold you back.

Future strong is letting go of what no longer serves you. Quickly.

IF you can fly above the CLOUD of politics, the storm is not for you.

Those who possess nothing and yet enjoy everything have no fear of losing anything.

To find true freedom, relinquish all of your attachments.

Give away everything—even your heart, soul, and mind. Nothing is yours. Keep your experiences and your memories. Those are yours and they make you who you are.

Anger, ego, jealousy are the biggest diseases,Keep yourself aloof from these three diseases.

Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.

I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.

Sometimes happiness comes, sometimes sadness, anger, jealousy - you need not make them your problems

There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.

When you inquire in yourself, all you desire is desirelessness.

If thoughts arise, observe them, but do not get hooked into stories about them; then let them "float away," the way bubbles float up and away when a diver exhales under water.

We are all blind thinking that life consists of possessing material goods, holding onto this, then that, getting to know one thing, then another, then trying desperately to ignore the fact that the whole process inevitably amounts to absolutely nothing. Life isn't a game where you have to possess and know as many things as possible. Rather, it is about reducing yourself to zero, living in a new and more authentic way.

This is a cycle, she thinks. Every day a fresh horror, and when it's over, this feeling of surreal detachment. A disbelief, almost, in what they just endured. The mind is magical. Human beings are magical.

The sky is scrubbed fresh and stark blue by the gone rain, but every trace of that water has evaporated from the earth around them. It feels like a dream, all that rainfall. This is a cycle, she thinks. Every day a fresh horror, and when it's over, this feeling of surreal detachment. A disbelief, almost, in what they just endured. The mind is magical. Human beings are magical.