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Attachment Quotes by Rajneesh

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Rajneesh likens the ego to a soap bubble that rises briefly then bursts, showing how fleeting it is. He teaches that attachment is the root of misery, and when desires drop a new, colorful world appears. He urges us to stay detached from past possessions and clinging, so freedom can grow.

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It is your attachment that creates hell.

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Attachment is not love. Where there is attachment there is exploitation.

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Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality.

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Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.

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My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding.

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Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.

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Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'.

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You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery.

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Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment.

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All duality is a mind creation, all duality is created by the clinging and attached mind. When there is no attachment there…

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If you try too much to change the outside, that shows that you are still attached. If a man tries to be…

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Attachment is the food for the mind to continue. Non-attached witnessing is the way to stop it without any effort to stop…

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Don't be attached to the things of the world, and don't be attached to the things of the other world, because things…

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A witnessing consciousness lives in life but with tremendous non-attachment, with great non-possessiveness; it possesses nothing. It lives totally, it lives passionately,…

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To be unattached is not to renounce the world. If you renounce the world you are attached to the world; otherwise why…

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Attachment brings misery, unattachment brings blissfulness. So use things, but don't be used by them. Live life but don't be lived by…

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As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment;…

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Attachment is misery, but from the very beginning the child is taught for attachment. The mother will say to the child, "Love…

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Everything comes out of nothingness and goes back into nothingness. Hence there is no need for attachment, because attachment will bring misery.…

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Just seeing the fact that this is an attachment, that attachment is a bondage - a beautiful word for bondage - that…

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Remember remain alert that you don't get too much attached to the accidental - and all is accidental except your consciousness. Except…

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Much is being missed because of fear. We are too attached to the body and we go on creating more and more…

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A person who lives moment to moment, who goes on dying to the past, is never attached to anything. Attachment comes from…

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If attachment is the conditioning factor, then non-attachment will become the unconditioning factor. If expectation leads you in misery, then non-expectation will…

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To remain attached to the temporal, to the changing is to remain within the world of misery because the temporal will be…

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Your ego may be just a soap bubble. Maybe for a few seconds it will remain, rising higher in the air. Perhaps…

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Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.

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Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool - sooner or…

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Become alert about desire and non-attachment begins to appear. This is not to be made to happen, it follows naturally from awareness…

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Attachment is the root cause of all misery - and our mind is such that it starts clinging to each and everything.…

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When your desires drop, the world is there, but it is a totally new world. It is so fresh, it is so…

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‎Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love. If you…

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When Patanjali says "non-attachment", he is not anti-love. Really, he is for love. Non-attachment means be natural, loving, flowing, but don't get…

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When you are not the doer how can the attachment happen? You do a small thing and you become attached. You say,…

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All of our miseries are nothing but attachment. Our whole ignorance and darkness is a strange combination of a thousand and one…

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If you get attached, then it becomes an obsession. If the person is not there, you are unhappy. If you miss the…

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One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. Don't get attached to anything. This attachment…

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Identification with the body, with the mind, with our possessions, with our families, with our friends - any kind of identification takes…

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This is the whole secret of non-attachment: live in the world, but don't be of the world. Love people, but don't create…

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