Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh,… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
“In unfavorable circumstances, kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) occur, and in favorable circumstances, more kashays occur. However, the kashays of favorable circumstances are cold. Those… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Our whole ignorance and darkness is a strange combination of a thousand and one attachments. And we are attached to things which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky's underground man ... observes his contemporaries striving to establish false goals where there are no naturally generated ones. ... He argues… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“It was if we all sensed we'd be gone someday soon in a sudden instant--often it happened in the middle of the… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
And we should forget, day by day, what we have done; this is true non-attachment. And we should do something new. To… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest impacts on intimacy is fear. Fears surrounding intimacy can result in a push-pull dynamic because of differing attachment… — Annie Tanasugarn Copy Share Image
As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There is no fire like greed, No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger of heart, And no… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
If attachment then carries forward in a way that's not healthy, we need to let it be there without making it wrong… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
One of the reasons it is so difficult to break a connection to something or someone you have imprinted on is that… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
If you get attached, then it becomes an obsession. If the person is not there, you are unhappy. If you miss the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The secret to letting go is the realization that the object of attachment (sadness, fear, wealth, people) was never a part of… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
“There had not been an attachment to it; it wasn't supposed to change me, it wasn't supposed to make me do anything… — Meara O'Hara Copy Share Image
Now when you transfer into the conscious parenting paradigm, you have to release those pressures and those fears... you actually think into… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
I lived the life of Londoners - and thence comes my immense gratitude and my deep attachment with the British people. I… — Maurice Druon Copy Share Image
Live in Joy, In love, Even among those who hate. Live in joy, In health, Even among the afflicted. Live in joy,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“The key to finding a mate who can fulfill those needs is to first fully acknowledge your need for intimacy, availability, and… — Amir Levine & Rachel S.F. Heller Copy Share Image
It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Desperation precludes reflection. That is one of the reasons why smart people can get involved in very obviously unworkable relationships. Like addiction,… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
I think humans have always felt watched back by whatever is out there flickering in the distance. What excites me is what… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
It's very rare to be in a state where there's nothing in, where you have no attachment to any idea or concept… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
We have lost sight of nature's role in the whole process of maturation and growing up. Parents and nature are a team.… — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
In the mountains, worldly attachments are left behind, and in the absence of material distractions, we are opened up to spiritual thought.… — Jamling Tenzing Norgay Copy Share Image
If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Worry is the product of feverish imagination working under the stimulus of desires... It is a necessary resultant of attachment to the… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
“The whole world is indeed trapped by misery. What is the misery about? Due to ignorance of one’s own Real Self (agnanta).… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Beauty is an illusion, created by Mother Nature to drive the human species in the path of reproduction. In reality, beauty is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“My trouble is that I think there is a track that things should stay on. I'm hooked to a belief that life… — Denise Roy Copy Share Image
True honour is an attachment to honest and beneficent principles, and a good reputation; and prompts a man to do good to… — Thomas Gordon Copy Share Image
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