Quotes About Detachment

Yaln?zl?k... Onlar?n inand??? gibi inanm?yorum, onlar?n yaÅŸad??? gibi yaÅŸam?yorum, onlar?n sevdiÄŸi gibi sevmiyorum... Onlar?n öldüÄŸü gibi öleceÄŸim.

It was an interesting lesson in power. The only time you truly have it is when you genuinely don't care whether you have it or not.

Surrender means, by definition, giving up attachment to results. When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.

It's unbelievable how tenaciously we cling to what we've prayed to be released from.

I surrender my attachment to lesser things.

It isn't easy, giving birth to our spiritual potential. Spiritual labor can be very arduous—one holy instant at a time, when we give up, surrender, soften, don't care if we're right, forgo our impatience, detach from the opinions and prizes of the world, and rest in the arms of God. But the end result is the love of our lives. We begin

To the extent that I withdraw my attachment to what you did, I will no longer be affected by what you did. I have decided to put my faith elsewhere. That is the miracle of forgiveness.

It is better to have nothing, for at last even our bones will fall. It is better to have nothing.

I thought I had learned not to set my heart on anything.

His efforts were always in the service of releasing people from their fixed ideas about who or what they were, about freeing them from attachment to whatever concept they were clinging to, about loosening the hold that the fear-based ego claimed as its birthright.

The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.

To be honest, I'm trying to maintain a Buddhist detachment about the whole thing to stop it taking ten years off my life.

Freedom consists of being insulated from the envy and ignorance of the unimportant people who temporarily surround her.

Feeling unable to maintain this detachment of attitude towards human- and, in especial, matrimonial- affairs, I asked whether it was not true that she had married Bob Duport. She nodded; not exactly conveying, it seemed to me, that by some happy chance their union had introduced her to an unexpected terrestrial paradise.

Detachment was all very well, but it could change so easily to indifference.

It was not possible to communicate with her because she would not abandon her coffee cup.

I have neither friends nor relatives, thank goodness. I'm as lonely as a stone.

But—I don't want to knock anyone. Even if you think I do, what do I care?

I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and no color--something which exists before all forms and colors appear... No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world. The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling - a feeling which embraced the universe and expressed an inseparable connection of the ego with the external world.

One must be humble, one must keep personal preferences and antipathies in the background, if one wishes to discover the realities of the world.

Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world.

I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.