Attachment Quotes · Page 8

Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality.

— Rajneesh

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

— Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

Attachments stir the soul, ignite the emotions. Guard what moves you, reserving that for the truth.

— Suhaib Webb

If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation.

— Swami Vivekananda

A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Samsaric pleasures are like salt water, the more we indulge, the more we crave.

— Geshe Sonam

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

— Simone Weil

“Grief is a good thing. It's the way we get through the transitions of life.”

— Rick Warren

It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any…

— Swami Vivekananda

“If attachment is an evil, we must look for its cause in the scandal of birth, for to be born is to…

— Anonymous

“Let a man leave anger, let him forsake pride, let him overcome all bondage! No sufferings befall the man who is not…

— Gautama Buddha

Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like…

— Gautama Buddha

I have a possessive female spirit. I was also told I have a demonic attachment. They make me sick. They make me…

— Zak Bagans

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts;…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“You can be considered vitrag (free from attachment, enlightened one), only if you remain in the ‘real’. Raag-dwesh (attachment-abhorrence) occur when you…

— Dada Bhagwan

The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own…

— Brad Blanton

It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a…

— Noah Webster

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

— George Ripley

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

— Charlotte Eriksson

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

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

Christians are beginning to lose the spirit of intolerance which animated them: experience has shown the error of the expulsion of the…

— Baron de Montesquieu

I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So strong were these…

— Galen Beckett

Identification with the body, with the mind, with our possessions, with our families, with our friends - any kind of identification takes…

— Rajneesh

Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like?…

— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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…

— Rajneesh

“The cause of most stress can be summed up by the word attachment. Self 1 gets so dependent upon things, situations, people…

— W. Timothy Gallwey

The reflection, the verisimilitude, of life that shines in the fleshly cells from the soul source is the only cause of man's…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

— Virginia Woolf

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

— Simone Weil

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

— Lester Levenson

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

— Oprah Winfrey

“...man's sentimental attachment to objects is one of life's greatest consolations.”

— Orhan Pamuk

“... It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring”

— Robyn Davidson

“AIBO permits something different: attachment without responsibility.”

— Sherry Turkle

If you expect miracles in your life, then release any attachment to the outcome.

— Joe Vitale