Quotes About Detachment

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports.

I tend to write it and then let go emotionally.

I certainly don't lose any sleep if I lose a tennis match.

I'm terribly shallow. I don't miss things once I have stopped doing them, and I don't miss people when I stop seeing them.

He does not identify the self with the physical body or attach much importance to the possessions of that body. He feeds it, dresses it, cares for it and regulates its behavior. In due course he leaves it. One of the powers conferred by entry into the fourth room is the capacity to die at will.

Six days a week we seek to dominate the world, on the seventh we seek to dominate the self ... In the tempestuous ocean of time and toil there are islands of stillness where man may enter a harbor and reclaim his dignity. The island is the seventh day, the Sabbath, a day of detachment from things, instruments and practical affairs as well as of attachment to the spirit.

hereafter, is see that you do not identify your self with them.

he does not pursue activities with the notion that he is the doer;

One without attachment is free from sorrow.

The wise one lives without the feeling of I-ness or mine-ness. What is this I, or what is "mine"? Be devoid of the feeling of mine-ness and I-ness, knowing for certain that Nothing is—in Me, individual selves rise and disappear.

One reasonable reaction to evolutionary psychology is a self-consciousness so acute, and a cynicism so deep, that ironic detachment from the whole human enterprise may provide the only relief.

Happy are those who own nothing.

The only thing an intellectual can do is watch things blow up, from a safe distance, of course.

Detachment and renouncement: often synonyms in Sanskrit, but not in the G?t?: here 'renouncement' (sa?ny?sa) is the lower form that consists of becoming a hermit, sitting beneath a tree and moving no further. 'Detachment' (ty?ga) is making use of this world as if not using it.

Not every problem in the world belongs to you.

So many things were easier to live with if you didn't give them much thought. p. 28

It is difficult to insult the man you don't speak to.

At the moment of deciding not to argue further, he had given up all emotional investment in the situation. He had withdrawn his anma into himself as he had been taught to do, divesting it of his anger and offense as he did so. It was not that these emotions were unworthy or inappropriate; it was simply that they were wasted upon the man. He swept his mind clean of reactions to the filthy blanket. By the time he reached the foredeck, he had regained not just calmness, but wholeness.

originally walked away from material possessions because I felt the weight of them dragging me down. Now I don't own anything I can't afford to lose because I don't want to die one day trying to protect something I never should've cared about in the first place.

Now I don't own anything I can't afford to lose because I don't want to die one day trying to protect something I never should've cared about in the first place.

Didnt Really Give A Rat's Ass

She realised that letting someone go was setting them free.

We can't hold on to anyone or anything, you know. We lose everything except that which we carry within us.