29 quotes found
“As long as we lean on anything outside ourselves for support, we are going to be insecure. Most of us try to find support by leaning on all sorts of things - gold, books, learning, sensory stimulat...”
“We must not bind our hearts to the things of the world, no matter how beautiful they are or how much pleasure they give us. Our hearts must soar in the heavens for us to be truly the humans we were...”
“Losing something she loved had ripped her open in a way she had not expected. The pain hurt, but the pain was right. The Order had wrought a galaxy in which good capitulated to evil, where human fe...”
“Like petals what's beautiful is often delicate. Take care of the ones you love by not holding them too tightly”
“When you run up against someone elses shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shamelessness possible?No. Then dont ask the impossible. There have to be shameless people in the world. T...”
“If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man?To welcome with affection what is sent by fate. Not to stain or disturb the spirit within him with a mess of false beliefs. Inst...”
“A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have ...”
“The practice of Detachment encourages the positive aspects of your life to become dominant, while providing a clear path for the negative aspects to recede.”
“Also the natural sexual functions of establishing an intimate human contact frequently assume greater proportions. This is a well known fact about detached people for whom sexuality may be the only...”
“The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.”
“Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.”
“Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch ...”
“You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and j...”
“Detachment, properly understood, means freedom, inner freedom. And, although it is not a word Jesus used, detachment expresses very well an important element in his spirituality: the ability to let...”
“You must understand, owing to my loss of faith in life, I had gradually, inevitably embarked upon a small world of my creation.”
“The sight of the wall of water outside reassured me, giving me the idea that it made very little difference whether I stayed with her, or set out alone on my journey that had neither visible starti...”
“She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them.”
“The greatest asset to the human experience is the ability to navigate ones emotions. By practicing the skill of detachment, one can successfully step back from the potentially destructive and tune ...”
“Detachment is a basic requirement for seeking enlightenment. Anyone or anything we are attached to has power to manipulate us although we all have freedom to choose.”
“A Sufi is one who is not bound by anything nor does he bind anything”
