Quotes About Detachment

When there is hate or negative comment, I try to ignore it and try to not bother myself with such stuff.

I have this ability to really leave set and just cut off from it immediately.

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

Although some religious traditions may promote inner detachment vis-à-vis political systems, most religions tend to be politically conservative and nationalistic and Zen has been no exception in this regard.

No hay palabras que sean como el agua destilada, insustanciales, ajenas a la vida y al mundo.

It's always a bad sign when we start thinking in numbers,' Joseba had said to me once, apropos a poem he was writing. 'When we're about to lose something good or something we really love, we start to count: only another so many days, we say. And the same thing happens when we're in a situation we don't like: we start to calculate how many days until the end. In either case, thinking in numbers is never good.

Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.

I sense a space around him. He has a manner of eyeing people, even if he's standing face to face, as though he sees them from a distance.

There is no suffering for him who has finished his journey, and abandoned grief, who has freed him self on all sides, and thrown off all fetters.

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.

Never tie your happiness to the end of someone else's kite.

Some things don't need to be cut back. They need to be cut off.

The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path.

Karma does not bind one who has renounced work.

I desire neither victory nor pleasure nor kingdom, O Krishna. What is the use of the kingdom, or enjoyment, or even life?

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bear shame and glory with an equal peace and an ever tranquil heart.

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.

It always comes back to just letting go with love. Just put the love in it. Whatever it is, and if you can't put love in it, don't do it!

Suppose I shaved off my hair and beard, put on the yellow robe, and went forth from the house life into homelessness?

Future strong is letting go of what no longer serves you. Quickly.

Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.

I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.