Quotes About Detachment

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.

My skin got thicker. I don't listen to stuff from outside or even if I hear or if I read something, I just let it go very easily.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

I don't care what people think of me. I don't even care what happens to me.

People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.

I think there are only two ways to live in this place,' said Sister Philippa, 'you must either live like Mr Dean or like the Sunnyasi; either ignore it completely or give yourself up to it.

What I most want is to spring out of this personality, then to sit apart from that leaping. I've lived too long where I can be reached.

Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free.

What are you smiling about? I simply asked a question. I don't care, I'm just curious."- Sesshomaru

AVOID DUMB PEOPLE. DO NOT TRY TO EDUCATE THEM OR TRY TO PROVE HOW SUPERIOR YOU ARE TO THEM. JUST SMILE AND STAY AWAY FROM THEM.

There's a certain detachment sensitive people must maintain to endure the harsh realities of this world.

Jed was used to isolation. His face was like some kind of cul-de-sac. It said NO THROUGH ROAD to most people. Confronted with him, they always turned around, backed away.

One sure way to lose the world and everything in it, is to try grasping it.

Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days' worth of rice in my bag; a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment? Listening to the night rain on my roof, I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.

meditation, if it is observed without craving or attachment, leads to purity. The

Ak?amdan ak?ama iki kadehin zarar? yoktur. ?nsana dünyay? unutturur. Eh, bu dünya da unutulacak dünya zaten...

Renunciation, or refusing to identify with that which one gathers (however precious it may be), is the ultimate doorway to knowing.

Once your intellect gets identified with something, it gets chained to the identifications, and leaves you with a completely distorted experience of the world.

The only thing you can do is to stop attaching importance to your own ways of thinking and feeling, your thought patterns, your emotions, and your opinions. Don't attach any importance to them. Then your limitations will become weaker and weaker and one day collapse.

I want you to understand: however big one is in the world, tomorrow morning if I fall dead or you fall dead, the world will go on just fine—maybe better—without us!

Once you are released from the fruit of action, the action will happen by itself. You don't have to stop working to be released from action. Simply, it will dissolve, melt and disappear. Once the expectation of the fruit of action is completely removed from your life, the action occurs by itself. You don't have to do anything about it.

The moment you get strongly identified, you lose your perspective on life!

If you do not encumber your intellect with any identifications—body, gender, family, qualifications, society, race, caste, creed, community, nation, even species—you travel naturally toward your ultimate nature.