Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Nothing is better for "spiritual advancement" & the detachment of the flesh than a close reading of the "Erotic Dictionary.” — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“If I don't see the reason of someone being my friend, chances are, we are just floating and I need a ship… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Particularly on social media, there is that level of detachment, some people feel like they can say whatever pops in their head . — Bella Heathcote Copy Share Image
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough. — Guy Spier Copy Share Image
My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“The practice of Detachment encourages the positive aspects of your life to become dominant, while providing a clear path for the negative… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
A lot of times in spiritual communities, detachment is considered to be an expression of being spiritually evolved when often, we have… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood - or understand what they have experienced until they have… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The path towards living in a spiritual manner begins by eliminating inculcated cultural biases, destroying personal illusions, and gratefully accepting the world… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
What all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and cynicism on the part of the artists. Since… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
“Detachment, properly understood, means freedom, inner freedom. And, although it is not a word Jesus used, detachment expresses very well an important… — Albert Nolan Copy Share Image
I sort of gave up on this whole human adventure a long time ago, divorced myself from it emotionally. It gives me… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Being anthropologically respectful of all faiths means being committed to none, and being left to drift without an anchor for one's most… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“Leadership is detachment: detachment from material goods, detachment from feelings as well as personal detachment. To lead is to get rid of… — K. Von Novack Copy Share Image
A defensive war is apt to betray us into too frequent detachment. Those generals who have had but little experience attempt to… — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
Indifference looks like detachment, but it is not; indifference is simply no interest. Detachment is not absence of interest - detachment is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Allowing attachments to people/things create a compulsive addiction in us to be controlling. This “control” (fueled by fear of loss) fools us… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Assimilate ubiquitously. Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false. Examples of this in everyday life: "oh, I need to… — Henry Barthes Copy Share Image
I'm not prescribing non-doing as a universal response to our problems. Sometimes, something obviously needs to be done. And we retreat into… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“Dr. Doris Parker: I have your ten week report. You know what it says "F, F, F… ". Do you know what… — Dr. Doris Parker Copy Share Image
“Also the natural sexual functions of establishing an intimate human contact frequently assume greater proportions. This is a well known fact about… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“I feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“Although contemplating the nature of the body highlights its less attractive features, the purpose of the exercise is not to demonize the… — Anālayo Copy Share Image
“If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man? To welcome with affection what is sent by… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
