131 quotes found
“As spiritual searchers we need to become freer and freer of the attachment to our own smallness in which we get occupied with me-me-me. Pondering on large ideas or standing in front of things which...”
“Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier.”
“Teaching English is (as professorial jobs go) unusually labor-intensive and draining. To do it well, you have to spend a lot of time coaching students individually on their writing and thinking. St...”
“From the dear comes grief; From the dear comes fear.If you're freed from the dear You'll have no grief, let alone fear.”
“The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.”
“Fear creates attachment. Look around at the people and things you feel attached to; the people and things that you believe you can't live without. What is it that you are afraid of? Make it a goal ...”
“Attachment is the source of pain, but detachment is the source of joy.”
“All the so-called philosophical notion of love without attachment or detached love are biologically non-existent on this planet. We humans are biologically designed through millions of years of evo...”
“You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence...”
“A thought is harmless unless we believe it. Its not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that its true, without inquiring....”
“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
“It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.”
“Abide not with dualism,Carefully avoid pursuing it;As soon as you have right and wrong,Confusion ensues, and Mind is lost. (172)”
“Try not to seek after the trueOnly cease to cherish opinions. (172)”
“Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex-toy.”
“It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)”
“When a thing becomes indispensable it's time to give it up.”
“But, as your saints teach and we have always known, attachment enslaves you. Only those free from it see the world as it really is and have power over themselves and all things.”
“Taming attachment,does not mean becoming cold and disinterested. On the contrary, it means learning to have a composed control over our mind through understanding”
“We are not what we do!”
