Attachment Quotes

I'm trying to use Palestine as a microcosm of the world, but maybe the world is a microcosm of Palestine. We're living in a moment that has lost attachment to the ideology behind boundaries.

I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.

Advanced meditators are not even desirous of liberation anymore - that is just another attachment. There is no liberation. There is no bondage. These are just ideas of the mind.

Being attached is what prevents us from seeing, it is what clouds this miraculous awareness.

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

Money is not a problem, but unintelligent attachment to it is.

Sometimes we find that we like our thoughts so much that we don't want to let them go.

It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.

Attachment is the root of all suffering.

It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.

A lot of people, quite frankly, think intense attachments to animals are weird and suspect, the domain of people who can't quite handle attachments to humans.

According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent.

Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens.

"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.

This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom--the very fashion of which "passeth away.

Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them.

Is not virtue a negation of becoming?

When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside, and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.

Attachments and bereavements are inseparable.

Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.

PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this and that.

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won't want to let it in.

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

Home's where you go when you run out of homes.

The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.

How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?

God loves all those who love him: I love them that love Me.

A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.

The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.

I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.

It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.

This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.

Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.

In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it.

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time because they believed.

As your love grows, you will find that your attachment to this world will begin to fall away.

Thousands and thousands of incarnations and nothing to show for it. You must choose whether to follow the path of love or the path of attachment.

When there is time, there has to be suffering. Because in time there's desire and attachment and transition. This is the world of experience.

The problem with love is attachment; love makes you dependent. Unattached love - you love for the hell of it.

When all of the selves have been dissolved, you will enter into the super-conscious awareness. Then, you are free. Then, there is no suffering. Then, there is no attachment.

Most people suffer in love because of attachment. Attachment means we're interested in a net return on our investment.

Attachment is the source of all suffering.

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

For the Christian mystics, detachment meant to leave attachment so that God could enter you and take over completely and you could climb the ladder to their heaven. Kind of crazy, but what the hell?

Attachment has to do with suffering, so it's really close to Buddhism, because Buddhism wants to relieve you from suffering; you're supposed to escape from suffering.

Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment