Quotes About Detachment

Not to be attached to something is to be aware of its absolute value. Everything you do should be based on such an awareness, and not on material or self-centered ideas of value.

The true purpose is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

Zen is nothing to get excited about.

Not to be attached to something is to be aware of its absolute value.

Dogen-zenji said, "To give is nonattachment." That is, just not to attach to anything is to give.

Love is bigger than us. So we confuse ourselves over it.And of course, its vastness overwhelms. But then that is the only lesson in life.How to love. How to love well, with a detached eye but a concerned hand.How to understand and surrender to its countless contradictions. Most importantly, though, how to never stop loving.

Love is bigger than us. So we confuse over it. And of course its vastness overwhelms. But then that is the only lesson in life. How to love. how to love well, with detached eye but a concerned hand. How to understand and surrender to its countless contradictions. Most importantly though, how to never stop loving.

All of them with their own lives, untouched by mine. Or each other's.

On Waugh) As a protective device against the bruising contact of life, he was determined to see events and people as a fction from which he was separate.

On Waugh) ...and his capability to cut himself off from reality in order to become a detached spectator of his own predicament. The same mechanism of imagination which produce feelings of panic, can also - if guaided by forceful will - generate couradge.

Never get attached to possessions…. They're just things and you can always get more things.

Feelings can't be a part of this game.

And if we Negroes at the back of beyond honor our dead for nine days, it's so that the soul of the deceased should not be hurried in any way, so that it can detach itself gradually from its piece of earth, its chair, its favorite tree, and the faces of its friends, before going to contemplate the hidden side of the sun.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.

Never cling on to something that takes away your inner peace. Build courage and let it go.

Never let things that you can live without to damage you.

Not everything is meant for us, observe, accept then free your mind.

Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation.

Since there's no more you and me. It's time I let you go so I Can Be Free.

I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.