Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Let a man leave anger, let him forsake pride, let him overcome all bondage! No sufferings befall the man who is not… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is… — Ravi Ravindra Copy Share Image
“Like-dislike is a ‘discharge moha’ (illusory attachment that is dissipating and not binding new karma), while attachment-abhorrence is a ‘charge moha’ (illusory… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Non-attachment doesn't mean you are aloof, uncaring, or don't have things. It's about coming into right relationship with everyone and everything. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The yearning for the common good comes from the refusal to accept that perhaps Americans have very little in common apart from… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“I thought of Bobby, of the last look he had given me, and at that moment I understood one of the differences… — Jaime Manrique Copy Share Image
Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven… — Laozi Copy Share Image
For a lot of people, one of the reasons they don't like to work for founders of startups is that they can… — Lynn Jurich Copy Share Image
Nonbelievers like myself stand beside you, dumbstruck by the Muslim hordes who chant death to whole nations of the living. But we… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is just that he should act with reserve towards those who act with reserve towards him. On the contrary, he gives… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Every big moment in my life also includes 'Iron Man.' Because I have that attachment to it, it means a lot to… — Iman Vellani Copy Share Image
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
I have a deep attachment to the natural world. It's a major influence on my writing, and as I look out over… — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Once again, I was reminded that Tally was the prettiest girl I'd ever met, and when she smiled at me my mind… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment,… — Mayim Bialik Copy Share Image
“Causes for attachment are formed at the same time that abhorrence is occurring. Acquaintance up to a certain point will result in… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“John Donne's 'A Valediction: forbidding mourning' concerns a sea voyage, and uses the image of a circle as an antidote to the… — Jeremy Holmes Copy Share Image
The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life: your memories, your… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
I moved down the street like a cloud of awareness following a body that seemed simultaneously familiar and foreign. There was an… — Suzanne Segal Copy Share Image
Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When you’re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Our misery comes, not from work, but by our getting attached to something. Take for instance, money: money is a great thing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“What is the definition of ‘remaining untouched in the worldly life’? It means that one finds pleasure upon seeing something nice, but… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent… — Mayim Bialik Copy Share Image
“The whole worldly life is of the non-Self complex (pudgal). But to have attachment-abhorrence in that non-Self complex, is called karmic bondage,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed. In cultivating generosity, we are only… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you. Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires. Love imposes no… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Surely a large part of the zealous repression of radical protest in America has its roots in the fact that millions of… — John Schaar Copy Share Image