Attachment Quotes

“the doctrine of non-attachment.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Anonymous

Witness your thoughts. Your thoughts are attachments.

— Ram Dass

“Most people are only as needy as their unmet needs.”

— Amir Levine

Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.

— Ian Schrager

We forgive when we give up attachment to our wounds.

— Lewis Hyde

All conflict comes from attachment.

— Anthony de Mello

“with attachment comes pain!”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

— Ram Dass

“Moha (illusory attachment) will indeed keep on stinging you until you are completely exhausted!”

— Dada Bhagwan

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

— Ilka Chase

I wish my tears dry away...because attachment hurts,always has and always will.

— Simi Ngr

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

— Lisa Alther

The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.

— Adi Shankara

Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.

— Radhanath Swami

With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.

— Sharon Salzberg

“What is attraction in this world? It is open fire; one should stay cautious there. Attraction is indeed the root of moha…

— Dada Bhagwan

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and…

— Anonymous

“Out of the hobbled spirit of attachment, and the insecure need of belonging, come the gross judgments against those who do not…

— Bryant McGill

Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.

— Gary Zukav

A man comes to a close contact with a lot of people in this earth,some of it may create a bond of…

— Mofazzal H Pavel

Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.

— Jaggi Vasudev

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of…

— George Washington

I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it.

— Robert Stone

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from…

— George Ripley

If attachment is the conditioning factor, then non-attachment will become the unconditioning factor. If expectation leads you in misery, then non-expectation will…

— Rajneesh

“You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things…

— Charlotte Eriksson

It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is…

— Alphonsus Rodriguez

We humans, once we have become emotionally invested in a homeplace, a prized personal possession, or, especially, in another person, find it…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and…

— Mahavira

Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he…

— Gautama Buddha

While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief,…

— Timothy Keller

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the…

— Virginia Woolf

To remain attached to the temporal, to the changing is to remain within the world of misery because the temporal will be…

— Rajneesh

“Teaching English is (as professorial jobs go) unusually labor-intensive and draining. To do it well, you have to spend a lot of…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

Ever since the Reformation, the case of legislation confining Catholics had been constructed primarily to protect a nervously Protestant against what was…

— Linda Colley

A tribute . . . is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected to devise…

— George Washington

“Attachment is a bond; we develop with someone on purpose, that cultivates into dependency. Love is free. It knows no conditions, no…

— Neha Katyal

“Life is a combo of attachment and detachment. Love is the most natural thing and you are bound to get attached to…

— Neelam Saxena Chandra

The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above…

— Mahatma Gandhi