Quotes About Detachment

Do not worry if others criticize or laugh at you, for their opinions are not your concern.

Every day you should put the ideas in action that protect against attachment to externals such as individual people, places or institutions – even your own body.

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would want them too. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible

So-and-so's son died.' ('The question'). Answer: 'Since it's nothing he can control, it isn't bad.

If you wish to have peace and contentment, release your attachment to all things outside your control.

Externals include the body and its members, as well as material goods. If you grow attached to any of them as if they were your own, you will incur the penalties prescribed for a thief.

Do not say of anything "I have lost it," but rather, "I have given it back.

When you attend the games, do not get emotionally invested in the rivalry. Wish only that the best team or athlete wins. Avoid the extremes of elation at a win and devastation at a loss.

If you have a favorite cup, remember that it is only a cup that you prefer—if it is broken, you can bear it.

Surrender the body and its members, physical faculties, property, reputation, office, honours, children, siblings – repudiate them all.

Nothing can truly be taken from us. There is nothing to lose. Inner peace begins when we stop saying of things, I have lost it and instead say, It has been returned to where it came from. [...] The important thing is to take great care with what you have while the world lets you have it.

If you wish to have peace and contentment, release your attachment to all things outside your control. This is the path of freedom and happiness.

We get angry because we put too high a premium on things that they can steal. Don't attach such value to your clothes, and you won't get angry with the thief who takes them.

Loss and sorrow are only possible with respect to things we own.

And yet, while there is only the one thing we can care for and devote ourselves to, we choose instead to care about and attach ourselves to a score of others: to our bodies, to our property, to our family, friends and slaves. [15] And, being attached to many things, we are weighed down and dragged along with them.

If you wish to be free, do not desire anything that depends on another, lest you make them your master.

Freedom is not achieved by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.

They were more free, but they were more alone.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Do not set your heart on wealth…Do not strain to seek increase,What you have, let it suffice you.If riches come to you by theft,They will not stay the night with you….They made themselves wings like geese,And flew away to the sky.

La riqueza no se mide por las cosas que se poseen sino por aquellas de las que sabemos prescindir.

Je ne porte aucun jugement, je constate seulement.

Perspective is useful, of course: It's why very few people want to be eighteen again. But the other side is having so much perspective, it's hard to give a damn about anything happening here in the real.