Quotes About Detachment

If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially tissue-thin and capable of being removed each morning, but which gradually thickened and hardened until we were imprisoned in our own tiny minds.

To be honest, I don't care how it went in.

I don't like social media at all, to be honest.

I'm not a fan of social media, to be honest.

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

News of distant places was accepted on par with a thunderstorm seen off in the distance - a far-off disturbance that would blow over before it touched them.

Do you have deep feelings for nature or do you year detachment? Do you prefer sex or self-control?

Giving up and submitting to suffering looks the same as achieving total detachment and surpassing the Buddha.

I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it.

The world's way of pursuing riches is grasping and hoarding. You attain My riches by letting go and giving.

THIS IS A TIME IN YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU MUST LEARN TO LET GO: of loved ones, of possessions, of control. In order to let go of something that is precious to you, you need to rest in My Presence, where you are complete.

I was rolling my eyes so hard that I was sure one of my retinas had just detached itself

Do not get attached to worldly things and pursuits. Be in the world, but do not let the world be in you.

A yogi has no preferences. There's no point in hurrying. The only thing that matters is for me to watch whatever is happening, good or bad.

As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly.

But this doesn't mean I'm getting attached to you.

Don't become so attached to your ideas that you lose objectivity.

I've never lost anything,' Red said, 'Not a penny, not a memory. Never lot anything. I've gotten rid of some crap, some people, but I don't allow myself to lose things.

Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.

People shouldn't take my lack of interest in what they're saying personally. I don't really care about what I'm saying most of the time.

Slowly but surely, I grew more and more disoriented, increasingly more detached from the world, something sad and awful straining around the edges of my mouth, surfacing in my eyes. I stopped going out at night. I stopped going out. Nothing could distract me. I felt like I was losing control. Something terrible was going to happen. Eventually something terrible did happen.

There are moments when you can only stand and stare, watching the world forget you as you remove yourself from it - when you overcome it and cease to exist as the person you were.

Best friends one, and now we have almost nothing to say to each other. It was interesting, how he had joined those guys and I just stayed on my own. I didn't like it or dislike it. It was just funny that things had turned out that way.

From a distance, people observed. Such a thing was easier from far away.