Quotes About Detachment

Take the first clue that he is backing off as an indication that something could be seriously wrong. Although your first instinct is to move closer, the more appropriate action is to move away. Know that your reassurance and acceptance will not alleviate his problem. Quite the opposite, it may be causing the problem. So don't work at being extra-giving, loving, attentive, etc. It's the wrong reaction.

The food-crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in hopes of adding five years on to the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.270

I let go of all I no longer love, need, or use. I adore space.

There may be times when you just have to love people from a distance.

Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.

Love is proved in the letting go.

Being with him was like being alone underwater - everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced.

Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.

If you love someone and they reject and neglect, you gotta move on, there's no point running in circles for someone when there's no reward.

Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.

I'm learning more and more that love plus attachment equals pain.

Eff love. Come out of the situation and look at it third person.

Sometimes letting someone go is the ultimate act of love.

I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy.

Some comedians love their characters. I don't fall in love with mine. In fact, I get tired of them very fast. You have to be willing to throw it all away.

The real meaning of detached love is to let others exist without forcing our will upon them. That is spiritual love.

Alternatively, perfection might be regarded as the absence of all unnecessary things, and the pleasures of an ascetic life.

he shrunk more and more from the realities of life and above all from the society of his day which he regarded with an ever growing horror,--a detestation which had reacted strongly on his literary and artistic tastes; he refused, as far as possible, to have anything to do with pictures and books whose subjects were in any way connected with modern existence.

Wie ein Eremit war er des Lebens überdrüssig und er- wartete nichts mehr von ihm: reif zur Einsamkeit; und ebenso war er gleich einem Mönch unendlich matt; er wollte sich sammeln, nichts mehr gemein haben mit den Weltlichen, die für ihn die Utilitaristen und Dummköpfe waren.

Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.

O homem não deve odiar o que adorou, pode unicamente libertar-se, afastar-se, desprender-se disso.

never let an asshole rent space in your head.

one of the most radical, far-reaching, and challenging statements of the Buddha is his statement that as long as there is attachment to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant, liberation is impossible.