Quotes About Detachment

I can go to a lot of games, but I'm not a player. I'm kind of an observer. That's why I think I do what I do in life. I just observe. That's what I find fascinating.

If you walk through life with ease and without any sense of entanglement, that is maturity.

One of life's minor satisfactions is forgetting.

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?

My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.

The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.

If a supernatural power tries to make you a saint or an emperor, refuse it, because the greatest beauty of life hides in having no position whatsoever! Positionless is the best position!

I have definitely had experiences where I can feel the shift from simply living my life to being slightly outside of my life and taking notes.

All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.

Fame separates you from life.

... when confronted with unusual life situations... A warrior acts as if nothing had ever happened, because he doesn't believe in anything, yet he accepts everything at its face value.

Life is too short to fight every idiot along your way.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing—detachment. —MEISTER ECKHART

Outside, in the pungency of the worn air, he sighed with premonitory tiredness. He locked the door, went up the steps, and headed for the subway that would take him to the upper West Side of town. He walked lightly and his face showed no awareness of all the thousands of people around him because he traveled in an eggshell through which came only subdued light and muffled sound.

Never invest so much in anyone romantically that you lose your head. The Buddha of casual sex, I remain detached at all costs.

When you are aware that you are being triggered, rather than simply reacting, you can remain detached, and separate your emotions from your true self. Tolle

You can't get sentimental about houses. Or bodies. They're just, I don't know, the Tupperware of the soul.

Training the mind to be patient and calm under all circumstances, then, often begins with learning to wear our likes and dislikes loosely, casually, like a favorite old sweater.

But what the hell, I told myself, it wasn't as if I were one of them or even competing with them, for heaven's sake, I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life. The scientist dropping into the zoo at feeding time. That is what I told myself.

But as the late- seventeenth-century philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz said, 'To be neutral is rather like someone who lives in the middle of a house and is smoked out from below and drenched with urine from above.

It was really true, there was no longer anything about him that could interest me. He wasn't even a fragment of the past, he was only a stain, like the print of a hand left years ago on a wall.

No one depended anymore on my care and, finally, even I was no longer a burden to myself.