Quotes About Detachment

It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn't bother to get too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.

Was it really this easy, once you escaped, to just not care?

Nelere sahibim! Ama onu dü?ünmem; neyim varsa hepsini çekip at?yor! Nelere sahibim... Ama onsuz, benim için her ?ey hiçle?iyor!

E s'abituava a disfarsi di tutto, per non aver più niente da perdere.

There is a moment that comes in drunkenness, or on the far side of it, when, as is said to happen sometimes to the afflicted in the throes of a heart attack, I seem to separate from my body and float upward, and hang aloft, looking down on the spectacle of myself with disinterested attention.

Don't you feel cut off?" I asked. "Cut off from what?" she replied. "No, on the whole I'd say we rather enjoy our separateness.

This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more.

The world is gradually becoming a placewhere I do not care to be any more.

More often than not, the demons of our nature love a recluse; nobody is more vulnerable to himself than the solitary. To imagine that one can simply withdraw, and somehow achieve peace, or wisdom, or detachment, is a mistake. It is also, in most cases, inappropriate, selfish, and even cowardly.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: 'To rise above little things'.

Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?

You can feel an emotion, just don't think that it's so important.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.

For this is spiritual sobriety, when we use this world so sparingly and temperately that we are not entangled with its allurements.

Prayer is learning to live, without expecting to see results; it is learning to love, without hoping to see return; it is learning to be, without demanding to have. We cannot live and love and simply be, unless we are consumed by a total commitment to detachment.

For, as I always like to say: 'It is not possessing something that is harmful, but being attached to it.

but David did not want to mix with them, and they in turn saw something sad and distant in him that kept them away.

We constantly need to be reminded not to attach to anything.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.

They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.

I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life.

"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.