Quotes About Dispassion

After all, television is confined to a glass box. No matter how gruesome the scenes on the screen may be, no blood will spill on the carpet. No matter how close television seems to be bring the day's events, they always remain distant enough to be viewed with dispassion. The global village can be visited and abandoned at will.

I don't think people care what I had for breakfast.

When we see deeply that all that is subject to arising is also subject to cessation, that whatever arises will also pass away, the mind becomes disenchanted. Becoming disenchanted, one becomes dispassionate. And through dispassion, the mind is liberated.

One should be bold and sincere and look at one's own mind as one looks at one's face in a mirror. Here is no attitude of criticizing or judging, or discriminating between right and wrong, or good and bad. It is simply observing, watching, examining. You are not a judge, but a scientist. When you observe your mind, and see its true nature clearly, you become dispassionate with regard to its emotions, sentiments and states.

The dispassion of paedeia also informed the doctrine of the Trinity, which these three men, often known as the Cappadocian Fathers

The objectivity we sought was the power to recollect — if not in tranquillity, at least in 'dispassion' and this power is rarely granted except to the imaginative writer.

Well, Scarborough cares, doesn't he? Maximus doesn't—not really. No doubt he's a bit compelled by the chase, but if he doesn't win"—she shrugged her shoulders—"he'll simply find another suitable heiress. She—Lady Penelope herself—doesn't really matter to him. And if it comes right down to it, wouldn't you chose passion—however old—over dispassion?

No one gives a shit if you write a book or not.

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.

It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my people as I know it, passionately and dispassionately as Brueghel.

Qué desapasionado, prosaicamente práctico, noblemente soso es nuestro tiempo. Aunque tal vez tenga también su lado bueno: uno puede distinguirse por su extravagancia.

Dispassion and humility lead to spiritual knowledge. Without them no one will see the Lord.

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!

Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.

Politics is not really my thing.

I ain't in the state of mind where I give a darn.

I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.

Explain my preference! I never had a preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.

Never, under any circumstances put a man in a position where he no longer cares.

When I was 19, my heart wasn't in it. I hated training.

To be honest, I don't care how it went in.

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

these practices began to yield unorthodox results. Meditation on impermanence, suffering, and no-self, for example, did not—as the Buddha insisted it would—lead me to disenchantment, dispassion, and a resolve not to be born again but to an ever-deepening awareness of life's infinitely poignant beauty.