Quotes About Detachment

Become alert! Relationship destroys love, destroys the very possibility of its birth.

In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.

The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.

How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.

He who is desireless, self-reliant, independent and free of bonds functions like a dead leaf blown about by the wind of causality .

Saying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.

Respect the gods, but have as little to do with them as possible.

One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.

No one can insult me, because I do not want respect.No one can defeat me, because I have given up the idea of winning.How can you defeat me? You can only defeat someone who wants to win.

Stop setting yourself on fire for people who just stand to watch you burn.

New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.

You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you

When people can walk away from you: Let them walk.

I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don't matter anymore.

Why should we feel sad when the Hindu brothers choose to leave our country? Do we mourn when we have indigestion and materials leave our bodies?

Now all I know how to do is to grow dark in the evening. I'm happy with what I've got. And all I wish to say is my name and address, and perhaps my father's name, like a prisoner of war who, according to the Geneva Convention, is not required to say a single word more.

Sacrifice is total nonpresence of the I. N

The idea is to carry everything on your back, forget your troubles, and let tomorrow take care of itself.

I have been self-reliant to the point of sadness. I wonder when I first fell into the habit of washing my hands after each brush with humanity, lest I be contaminated.

He was a man who had already died once. There was no reason why he should feel any sense of responsibility or attachment to the world. To him, it was nothing more than a sheet of newspaper covered in the scribblings of cockroaches.

Non mi curavo di nulla, e d'altronde nulla si curava di me.

Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.

To be calm when you've found something going on

To run fast, don't take much baggage with you. Leave all your illusions behind. They are very heavy.