Quotes About Detachment

As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again.

I try to avoid political ties.

Since nowhere can be home let me live nowhere in this scant hut in this brief world

All good things have come to me since I no longer seek them for myself. -Saint John of the Cross

Letting go is not getting rid of. Letting go is letting be.

When you make a mistake or otherwise find yourself behaving like a human, the best practice is to leave it at the stream. Don't carry it around like that angry monk who kept obsessing about the other monk's behavior. Just lay that burden down and let it go.

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

You don't get to keep the feelings for someone you once loved. Once you've washed your hands of that person, all those feelings, all that dirty water is washed out to sea. There is no word for that dirty water.

If you remain unaffected by worldly attractions and intimidations, you will definitely command a tremendous influence on the world. Anyone, who doubts this, is a fool and a person of low intellect.

What is the part of wisdom? To dream with one eye open; to be detatched from the world without being hostile to it; to welcome fugitive beauties and pity fugitive sufferings, without forgetting for a moment how fugitive they are.

I care for neither honey nor the honey bee

Brock, would be leaving their phones at home. Which sounded like a particularly torturous circle of hell.

Her eyes betrayed no shock at the sights of the quay as they unfolded – not the sweating deckhands, the prostitutes crowding the ship, the hubbub of stalls, including one where three slaves were for sale, their ankles manacled. She might as well have been walking through a country garden as she moved inexorably away from the water.

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he understands, but he remains unattached to any of them.

Do not spend your time thinking about the world or your relationships to individuals. These are all impermanent. They have only to do with the body.

Time doesn't really heal, it just makes you not to give a crap

The good news is that you don't have to stop thoughts completely to meditate. It takes a long time to stop thought impeccably. What you need is to detach yourself from thought.

I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.

For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.

Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time.

Oh, I steal things all the time. It's just something I do. I stopped caring a long time ago.

Francamente me ne infischio

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