Attachment Quotes

What is attraction (akarshan) in this world? It is open fire and one should be aware of it. Attraction is the open fire. The root of illusory attachment (moha) is indeed attraction.

Illusory attachment (moha) is indeed what will keep on biting you until the point of your demise!

Egoism’s nature is not Moha (Illusory attachment). Moha’s (Illusory attachment’s) nature is egoism. Moha is the origin of egoism.

My goal is not to upset the apple cart, but to make it more accessible.

A child's attachment process begins within the first year of life...

Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all.

Resistance is the subtlest form of attachment.

Dare to live by letting go.

The very matrix of our ability to love and bond in later life, maternal sensitivity – or lack thereof – also determines cultural tenor.

Traumatic experiences in early childhood may interfere with the child's ability to securely attach.

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.

Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier.

Attachment and Expectations are the two biggest killer elements of happiness in everyone's life.Learn the art to monitor and control these killers to bring happiness back in your LIFE!!!

Attachment-abhorrence is the foundation for the worldly life and the foundation for ‘Knowledge’ is a state free of all attachments (vitragta).

Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.

The Dictionary defines Soul Mate as: A person who is perfectly suited to another in temperament. Before I met mine, I didn't know I was bonkers!

All hurt is founded on attachment to anything regardless of its nature. When we detach we vibrationally send ourselves back into the flow of life.

Make no attachment, so you can flow freely.

You create more space in your life when you turn your excess baggage to garbage.

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.

Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage.

Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.

Awareness (of the Self) prevails in matters where one becomes attachment-free (vitrag), and where one has attachment-abhorrence, there his awareness will not prevail.

Attachment-abhorrence is an ‘effect’ and ignorance (of the self) is the ‘cause’!

Abhorrence towards bitter circumstances and attachment towards sweet ones is the nature of agnan (ignorance of the self). Bitter and sweet will not exist if agnan (ignorance of the self) leaves.

Until ignorance, of one’s own Self (the Soul), is removed, illusory attachment (moha) will not go away.

To say ‘I’ where I’ is not - is the greatest illusory attachment (raag).

Not doing attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh) while experiencing the unfolding of karma is religion.

A living together becomes a living apart, when the pineal gland has not been able to create a luster of spiritual togetherness and emotional attachment. (“I wonder what went wrong.” )

There is no insistence where there is pure love. Insistence is infatuation (deep attachment).

Once an opinion is formed, there will be attachment-abhorrence. A person without opinion is also without attachment-abhorrence.

When attachment increases too much, dislike will arise.

It is the nature of the circumstances to disperse. If there is attachment with the circumstance, there will be abhorrence when they get dispersed.

Abhorrence is the cause for conflicts. God has said, ‘Do no abhorrence. If you don’t like it, ignore it’.

Who is free from illusory attachment (nirmohi)? The Gnani Purush (the enlightened one). He can see flesh and bones, through and through.

To lose awareness of what is helpful or harmful in the worldly life is moh (Illusory vision & attachment).

Attachment is the source of pain, but detachment is the source of joy.

When you love someone, you end up caring about each and every person they love. When you hate someone, you end up caring about every single person who hates them.

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

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!

When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.

Desire also creates a sense of attachment in the mind. Not only are we attached to our way of thinking and of seeing the world, but we become over-attached to the people or things we desire.

Where do you see conflict in this world? Only where there is infatuation (attachment).

Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.

To win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the true winner, outside the confines of its defining.

Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.

Let go and go beyond living the dream, by dreaming the reality, into a reality beyond the dream.

I wait for what comes and experience the joy and delight of the unexpected.