Quotes About Detachment

THE SPOKEN TRUTH OF RUDY STEINER "I guess I'm better at leaving things behind than stealing them.

In a way, I wish I could be like that. You'd never worry or care about anything that really mattered. You'd be happy, in the same pitiful way someone like our friend Ritchie is. Nothing affects you and you affect nothing.

Thus, as passivity becomes extreme in the bulk of society, a sizeable segment of citizens detaches itself from the dream-locked majority. As vulgarity and stupidity thicken, more and more people awaken to the intolerability of their condition. Much can be done to foster this state of awareness, even though little can be done directly to change the policies of those in control today of the media of communication.

The good news is that you can step off the battlefield any time. You do this by aligning yourself with the Watcher part of your brain, then observing the conflict from a kind, detached distance. The more time you spend observing the battles, the less energy the war will have, and the sooner it will end. Strange but true: the brain that observes itself, changes itself. A

I didn't care what humans were doing to each other as long as I didn't have to a) stop it or b) clean up after it.

The sense of urgency just wasn't there. Also, you may have noticed, I don't care.

I wanted to just sink into my media downloads for a while and pretend I didn't exist.

Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.

Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.

She had held her life to an even keel by killing all deep feeling, by living upon the surface of life.

On the day the world is blown up, the playwright whose show opened the night before will be leafing past the news section of the Times to find his review--as he ascends through the stratosphere, oblivious.

My salvation is that I never took any interest in anything.

In the morning I had a look so lost, a face so dead, that perhaps those whom I met did not see me . - Bad Blood

Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us.

To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil.

Were I a King, my prime command would be—Leave me alone.

Has not that fellow abused and insulted you? No, was his answer, what he says is not addressed to me.

Si poseyera aquello que me falta, sería incapaz de disfrutarlo y me resultaría un estorbo

Give way neither to love nor to hate, is one-half of worldly wisdom: say nothing and believe nothing, the other half.

O espírito íntimo e o sentido da vida verdadeira e pura do claustro e do ascetismo em geral, é sentirmo-nos dignos e capazes de uma existência melhor do que a nossa, e querermos fortificar e manter esta convicção pelo desprezo de todos os vãos gozos deste mundo. Espera-se com segurança e calma o fim desta vida, livre das ilusões enganadoras, para saudar um dia a hora da morte como a da libertação.

A quiet bubble floating on a sea of noise.

I left them to themselves.

And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.

And then just as suddenly, I felt absolutely nothing. It was like a door quickly opened, showing me what horrible feelings I had inside, and then slammed shut again so I wouldn't have to actually face them. In many ways I felt I was living the life of a doctor in the ER. I was learning to block out all emotions in order to deal with the situation.