I wanted to turn everything off, too. Just press a button - click - and shut myself down. Turn off my heart,… — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed. — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“(John F.) Kennedy was an elitist and not a populist. He was enthralled by a certain British aristocratic view of politics in… — Scott Farris Copy Share Image
“Sri Krishna said: Arjuna, when one thoroughly casts off all cravings of the mind, and is satisfied in the Self through the… — Gita Press Copy Share Image
When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Says Bargh: "We all hold dear idea that we´re the captain of our own sould, and we´re in charge, and it´s a… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
“If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man? To welcome with affection what is sent by… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility. — William Osler 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
There are always moments when one feels empty and estranged. Such moments are most desirable, for it means the soul has cast… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Perhaps a past of bingeing, restricting, or purging comes back to haunt you from time to time. Maybe you have to fight… — Kate Wicker Copy Share Image
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“What did I get in return? Coldness and emotional detachment. You are selfish and bitter and you wouldn’t know a good thing… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
The fear side can have us pull away and protect us, but it's really a withdrawal, a disassociation, a cutting off. Rather… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
... when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin's eyes,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Joy only can be achieved through complete detachment, the detachment which is egoless and superegoless. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every day. Right now… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
