Attachment Quotes

I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.

Love without attachment is light.

Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.

Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.

The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.

Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.

Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.

I scourge both flesh and spirit because I know that I have offended in both flesh and spirit.

Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.

It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service.

In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.

As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment; as long as ego is there, all these bind one.

Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.

I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.

When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.

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

Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.

love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.

Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.

When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.

Be Good, Do Good.Do thou always without attachment perform action which should be done, for by performing action without attachment, man reaches the Supreme.

Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person.

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

All conflict comes from attachment.

This world is all attachment. Yet you get worried because you are attached.

The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.

Attachment is the main thing that is blocking your path towards enlightenment.

My body, thus, and all my good besides, And all my merits gained and to be gained, I give them all away withholding nothing To bring about the benefit of beings.

Be as eager to break your own will as the thirsty stag is to drink of the refreshing waters.

The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh.

This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life's long race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.

Today give up false mental attachments and beliefs! Free yourself from the delusion that anything external can fulfill the hunger of your soul for God-Consciousness.

Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.

Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.

I'm learning more and more that love plus attachment equals pain.

Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective.

How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it

Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity.

The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.

We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.

The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.

Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free.

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

If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments

When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment.

Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.