Attachment Quotes

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  Ram Dass

  Inspirational, Feelings, Done

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.59, Harmony

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• Nothing perceivable is real.Your attachment is your bondage. You cannot control the future.There is no such thing as free will. Will is bondage.You identify yourself with your desires and become their slave.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Real, Desire, Free Will

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• They are the kinds of things that make us a community: attachment to place, attachment to local arts traditions, the ability to read literature, the ability to look at paintings, the sense of connectedness to the land, the sense of community that comes from people taking care of their own.

  Robert Hass

  Art, Land, People

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That's why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Running, Strong, Pain

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• Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Lonely, Loneliness, Circles

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• What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Life, Learning, Meditation

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• How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Letting Go, Philosophical, Finding Yourself

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.40, Penguin

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• Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is. Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose

  George Lucas

  Letting Go, Greed, Missing

  George Lucas (2005). “Revenge of the Sith: Illustrated Screenplay: Star Wars: Episode III”, p.54, Del Rey

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• I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom.
  It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes,
  deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Essence, Meditation

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  Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Life, Strength

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• The world is won by those who let it go.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Let It Go, World

  "Tao Te Ching". Ch. 48, as translated by Raymond B. Blakney, 1955.

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

  Simone Weil

  Spiritual, Reality, Illusion

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• The root of suffering is attachment

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Strong, Political

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814”, p.248, Princeton University Press

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• Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

  Beverly Sills

  Love, Spiritual, Justice

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• In my life nothing goes wrong. When things seem to not meet my expectations, I let go of how I think things should be. It's a matter of not having any attachment to any fixed outcome.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Thinking, Expectations

  "This much I know". Interview with Fionola Meredith, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2008.

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• One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. Don't get attached to anything. This attachment takes you away from your real being; you become focused on the thing to which you are attached. Your awareness gets lost in things, in money, in people, in power. And there are a thousand and one things, the whole thick jungle around you, to be lost in. Remember, non-attachment is the secret of finding yourself, then awareness can turn inwards because you don't have anything outside to catch hold of. It is free, and in this freedom you can know your self-nature.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Self, People

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• This is the whole secret of non-attachment: live in the world, but don't be of the world. Love people, but don't create attachments. Reflect people, reflect the beauties of the world - and there are so many. But don't cling. The clinging mind loses its mirrorhood. And mirrorhood is Buddhahood. To keep that quality of mirroring continuously fresh is to remain young, is to remain pure, is to remain innocent. Know, but don't create knowledge. Love, but don't create desire. Live, live beautifully, live utterly, abandon yourself in the moment. But don't look back. This is the art of non-attachment.

  Rajneesh

  Art, World Love, People

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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• To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.

  Laozi

  Mind, Spiritual Transformation, Knows

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

  Rob Reiner

  Gun, Loving Life, People

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• Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Political, Perception, Way

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• There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

  Todd Gitlin

  Real, Believe, Patriotism

  "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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• Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

  Thomas Clarkson

  Spots, Born, Mankind

  Thomas Clarkson (1788). “An essay on the slavery”, p.60

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• If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Freedom, Hate, Libertarian

  United States v. Schwimmer (dissenting opinion) (1929)

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• Softly and kindly remind yourself, ''I cannot own anything.'' It is a valuable thought to keep in mind as you struggle to improve your financial picture, worry about investments, and plan how to acquire more and more. It is a universal principle which you are part of. You must release everything when you truly awaken. Are you letting your life go by in frustration and worry over not having enough? If so, relax and remember that you only get what you have for a short period of time. When you awaken you will see the folly of being attached to anything.

  Wayne Dyer

  Struggle, Frustration, Worry

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