Quotes About Detachment

The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.

How many things are there which I do not want.

Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life.

If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't.

If it's time to let go, JUST LET GO. You can't carry on through life with extra weight on your conscience.

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.

If at last thou attain the desire of thy life, Cast the world aside, yea, abandon it!

Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.

[on the secret to a happy, content life] Do you want to know what my secret is? I don't mind what happens.

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.

Don't let people with no life ruin yours.

I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.

If that person doesn't want to be in your life, just let him or her leave.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

They seemed disconnected, hollow somehow, deeply withdrawn.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Many Aquarian men experience the sensation of watching life as if they are outside of their body. Yes, some of them are crazy, but most of them are just so profoundly detached that they are able to separate not just from the rest of the world, but from themselves, too.

To sit in this awful mess and maybe smoke some dope and watch some innocuous shit on a dumb glass tube and feel fine about it and know there's really nothing you have to do, ever, but feel your warm friend's silent content. You don't feel guilty about not fighting a war or carrying signs to protest it either. We've just mastered the life of doing nothing, which when you think about it, may be the hardest thing of all to do.

The best response is to say what we have to say, and then walk away.

I had no idea that throwing away worthless things could bring about such contentment and . . . well . . . joy. Maybe that's true in life too. Get rid of the worthless things that tied you down and held you back.

Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions.

One of the most insidious forms of spiritual materialism is attachment to intellectual attainment.