Quotes About Detachment

For to love persons is to have died to the need for persons and to be utterly alone.

Hardly anyone has been told the following truth: In order to be genuinely happy there is one and only one thing you need to do: get deprogrammed, get rid of those attachments.

All suffering is caused by my identifying myself with something, whether that something is within me or outside of me.

if you just suppress your desire, and you attempt to renounce the object of your desire, you are likely to be tied to it.

And you will understand how true it is that everyone who stops clinging to brothers or sisters, father, mother or children, land or houses Ã¢â'¬Â¦ is repaid a hundred times over and gains eternal life.

You will never live until you stop clinging to life. Let go. When you cling, happiness dies. If your happiness depends on anyone or anything, that's not happiness.

You don't have to do anything to acquire happiness. The great Meister Eckhart said very beautifully, "God is not attained by a process of addition to anything in the soul, but by a process of subtraction." You don't do anything to be free, you drop something. Then you're free.

When you're living for nothing, you've got all your skills, you've got all your energy, you're relaxed, and you don't care. It doesn't matter to you whether you win or lose. Now there's human living for you. That's what life is all about.

In order to be genuinely happy there is one and only one thing you need to do: get deprogrammed, get rid of those attachments.

If you wish to be fully alive you must develop a sense of perspective. Life is infinitely greater than this trifle your heart is attached to and which you have given the power to so upset you. Trifle, yes, because if you live long enough a day will easily come when it will cease to matter

H?nh phúc là má»™t tình tr?ng gá»™i s?ch ?o t??ng, là sá»± d?t b? ?o t??ng.

?ào th?i, Ä'ào th?i g?n nhÆ° m?i th? b?n Ä'ã h?c. Nhi?t tình Ä'ào th?i và nhi?t tình l?ng nghe.

Ng??i ta không ??t ??n Thiên Chúa b?ng vi?c b? sung thêm cái gì vào linh h?n, nhÆ°ng là b?ng vi?c bá»›t Ä'i. ?? ???c tá»± do, b?n không c?n làm cái gì c?, b?n ch? c?n b? Ä'i má»™t cái gì Ä'ó thôi. Và b?n ???c tá»± do.

If you just enjoy things, refusing to let yourself be attached to them, that is, refusing to hold the false belief that you will not be happy without them, you are spared all the struggle and emotional strain of protecting them and guarding them for yourself.

En adelante, podrás ir pasando de un momento a otro de la vida plenamente absorto en el presente, llevando contigo tan poca carga del pasado que tu espíritu podría pasar a través del ojo de una aguja; tan escasamente afectado por la preocupación acerca del futuro como las aves del cielo y los lirios del campo. Ya no estarás apegado a ninguna persona o cosa, porque habrás desarrollado el gusto por la sinfonía de la vida.

se esfuma tu capacidad de llevar una existencia alegre, despreocupada y serena. Comprueba cuán verdadero es esto si lo aplicas al apego que has elegido.

Si tienes mil platos favoritos, la pérdida de uno de ellos te pasará inadvertida, y tu felicidad no sufrirá menoscabo. Pero son precisamente tus apegos los que te impiden desarrollar un más amplio y más variado gusto por las cosas y las personas.

They sleep despite noise, despite cold, despite hunger, as though desperate to stay removed from the waking world for as long as possible.

Il vantaggio più grande che la libertà offre agli esseri umani è quello di allontanarsi da ciò che infastidisce.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

My philosophy is, it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

And you've never met me, so don't bother me with your condolences. I've got no use for them.

You're having the party, Charles. Nobody knows who I am and nobody gives a damn. You can manage without me. Just try not to wake me when you come upstairs.

When Derek Abbott was arrested in London, he didn't care. I still remember the day he came in, sitting there with this look on his face like he was the lord of the manor who'd accidentally wandered into the servants' quarters. The police weren't going to get anywhere near him, not in a hundred years!