They are the kinds of things that make us a community: attachment to place, attachment to local arts traditions, the ability to… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For when man comes to front the everlasting God, and look the splendor of His judgments in the face, personal integrity, the… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be “just humans” within the framework of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Although other ( yānas ) assert that liberation will be achieved by renouncing the objects, one will not be bound by the… — Longchen Rabjam Copy Share Image
“Love should not cause suffocation and death if it is truly love. Don't bundle someone into an uncomfortable cage just because you… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“less mature a person is, the more he will rely on this basic mode of attaching. Peer-oriented kids like Cynthia are preoccupied… — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness.… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
I think it's possible to have experiences of love without attachment, but I think part of our conditioning is to grasp at… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Remember remain alert that you don't get too much attached to the accidental - and all is accidental except your consciousness. Except… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Attachment is the food for the mind to continue. Non-attached witnessing is the way to stop it without any effort to stop… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Those [American Jews] who favor the [Israeli] attack on Gaza are certainly guilty of such overwhelming emotional and cultural attachment to Israel… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
When you're a first time director, you're often considered what's called a "deadly attachment" in the eyes of financiers, because they're trusting… — John Krokidas Copy Share Image
Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Amazing. You were so attached to it, and it still disappeared for you." “Attached! I was whocking that cloud with everything I… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The compassion we feel normally is biased and mixed with attachment. Genuine compassion flows towards all living beings, particularly your enemies. If… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to… — Marilyn Frye Copy Share Image
Branding is not merely about differentiating products; it is about striking emotional chords with consumers. It is about cultivating identity, attachment, and… — Nirmalya Kumar Copy Share Image
I couldn't give away my husband's shoes. I could give away other things, but the shoes - I don't know what it… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I, more than anything, obviously the presidency is the people, and it's been interesting the emotions in the last few months. What… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think the emotion that song carries makes it good. Because you have to produce around something - an emotional attachment and… — The-Dream Copy Share Image
At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
Secure attachment is a mature way of dealing with relationship. there is trust and there is also honesty and communication when something… — Shirley Copy Share Image
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
The primary object of meditation is to not become overly attached to any particular thoughts that may come into to the mind.… — Tim McCarthy Copy Share Image
“As Baba Ram Dass (his ‘spiritual name’), Richard Alpert explained human attachment as a ‘clue that there’s work to be done’ –… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“Attachment. A secure attachment is the ability to bond; to develop a secure and safe base; an unbreakable or perceivable inability to… — Asa Don Brown Copy Share Image
Much is being missed because of fear. We are too attached to the body and we go on creating more and more… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For true devotion must issue from the heart, and consist in the truth and substances alone of what is represented by spiritual… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
“I've been doing this a long time- manipulating people to get my way. That's why you think you love me. Because I've… — CJ Roberts Copy Share Image
“…When the secret is discovered, when the Truth is seen, all the forces which feverishly produce the continuity of samsara in illusion… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
My sister and I know our lives could have been different - radically, unthinkably, irretrievably different - if we had not been… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
For the wisdom of the flesh brings death, but that of the spirit brings life and peace, since the wisdom of the… — Peter Damian Copy Share Image