Quotes About Detachment

I love portraying the totally indifferent person.

To love God as He ought to be loved, we must be detached from all temporal love. We must love nothing but Him, or if we love anything else, we must love it only for His sake.

The origin of every sin of the heart is love of this world.

It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them

Love is what's left when you let go of everything you don't need.

And that is the secret of this world. If you remove love of dunya from your heart, the dunya is yours for the taking. You can have the dunya because it's in your hand and not in your heart

If you love something, let it go. If you don't love something, definitely let it go. Basically, just drop everything, who cares.

Love and nonattachment are the basis of true generosity.

Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go.

Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

The heart of the path is quite easy. There's no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That's all that I do in my own practice.

Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt

Your heart must become a sea of love. Your mind must become a river of detachment.

Now I sat on a moulded plastic chair, my mind numb, my gaze fixed on a wall, unable to tell how long I had been there. I couldn't think. I couldn't feel. I just existed: me, the plastic chair, the squeaky linoleum under my bloodied tennis shoes.

Son,' he says as Fabien turns to leave. 'Let her go. Don't take it all so seriously, eh?

During those first two weeks, I got quite good at keeping my face completely blank, and I would turn away and disappear into the other room and just say as little to him as I possibly could. I started to hate him, and I'm sure he knew it.

true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.

You cannot deceive me if I'm not looking for anything from you.

Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well. —EPICTETUS

For Buddha, attachments are like a game of roulette in which someone else spins the wheel and the game is rigged: The more you play, the more you lose. The only way to win is to step away from the table. And the only way to step away, to make yourself not react to the ups and downs of life, is to meditate and tame the mind. Although you give up the pleasures of winning, you also give up the larger pains of losing.

acts like a kind of reset button: it makes people forget themselves and their petty concerns.

Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well. —EPICTETUS2

Research experts want to know what can be done about the values of poor segregated children; and this is a question that needs asking. But they do not ask what can be done about the values of the people who have segregated these communities. There is no academic study of the pathological detachment of the very rich...