Quotes About Detachment

I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.

I'm not an idiot; I try not to look, but I see what people say about me on Facebook. I see other things written. But I don't care.

A WORD TO THE WISE Let the world pass in its time-ridden race; never get caught in its snare. Remember, the only acceptable case for being in any particular place is having no business there.

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

I don't care about losing people who don't wanna be in my life anymore. I've lost people who meant the world to me and I'm still doing just fine.

You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.

Whatever has gone on in the outer world has passed me by. But I think if anyone said to me, 'if you go on like this life will pass you by,' I would reply, 'thank God for that, I nearly got mixed up in the beastly thing.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

We should note that mortification prepares for mental prayer, and the latter, in its turn, facilitates mortification. Therefore, prayer and mortification influence one another. Mortification and patience prepare for prayer through the purification and detachment they produce in us. They enable the person to take flight toward God, and this flight is prayer itself.

Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo. I was not, I was, I am not, I don't care.

Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.

What I mean, King, is this. We are the true Renouncers, because change is our very secret. We lose, in order to find. We have no faith in the never-changing. What do you mean? Haven't you noticed the detachment of the rushing river, as it runs splashing from its mountain cave? It gives itself away so swiftly, and only thus it finds itself. What is never changing, for the river, is the desert sand, where it loses its course.

But what other people thought was no longer of any help to me. Those thoughts only existed within certain structures, and I had definitively left those structures.

Stay away from me so I don't feel anything for you anymore.

Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.

Never sit at a table you can't walk away from.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can't walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

Asceticism doesn't lie in ascetic robes or in walking staff nor in the ashes. Asceticism doesn't lie in the earring nor in the shaven head nor blowing a conch. Asceticism lies in remaining pure amidst impurities.

I've learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

I don't even own a bike.

If I never competed again, it wouldn't bother me. I don't care.

I don't bother about anything, I don't let anything affect me.

It doesn't bother me what people are saying. Social media is there for people to voice their criticism, so you shouldn't take that to heart.