As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery. We have learned that the key to happiness is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and… — Mahavira Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is… — Alphonsus Rodriguez Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from… — George Ripley Copy Share Image
It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own… — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. This doesn't mean you give… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Remember me? I'm back to my old self again. No responsibilities, no attachments, no encumbrances. I don't want to own anything, love… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss. The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Well, the kind of central question: "Do you want to live - and I don't mean stay alive - do you want… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
It has always happened hitherto that whenever I have begun to feel an attachment to places, persons, or things, of a merely… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
“In whatever work that you do in this world, the work has no value. You will be ‘binding responsibility’ for next life… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
A person who lives moment to moment, who goes on dying to the past, is never attached to anything. Attachment comes from… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The secure attachment of Western psychology is actually akin to Buddhist non-attachment; avoid-ant attachment is the inverse of being mindful and present;… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
Lack of opportunity breeds dreams of escape. But professionals and managers who have invested in their careers do not leave the work… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
“Moments later, I was climbing nervously into the back of the car. The driver wore the archetypal expression of an antagonist. No… — Agnes Chew Copy Share Image
When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
I am often talking about the ideas collected in Normal Life in contexts that are not academic, or that are full of… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
“So many people confuse attachment with love. Attachment to someone implies control; loving someone assumes unconditional acceptance. Attachment leads to grief and… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“A child’s sense of secure attachment—this idea that I, in all my glory, as well as all my stinkiness and imperfection, am… — Susan David Copy Share Image
Sentient beings, self and others, enemies and dear ones-all are made by thoughts. It is like seeing a rope and mistaking it… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
When we say we have patterns, there is a cyclical movement to everything. Our psychological and emotional processes also have become cyclical… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. It is understandable… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“What is considered Sheel? It is when one does not respond to anger with anger, does not respond to pride with pride,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Instead of just saying, "I love my baby and I pick him up because he's adorable and it's so nice to cuddle… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“There are three defining factors that distinguish unavoidable conflict seen in healthy relationships from conflict seen in a push-pull dynamic, toxic relationship,… — Annie Tanasugarn Copy Share Image
She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The capacity to form attachments on equal terms is considered evidence of emotional maturity. It is the absence of this capacity which… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
If I can forgive the attachment in myself and open to the vulnerability that's underneath it, then rather than fixating on another… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
