Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
“But over the years I came to realize that living in a detached way is, in fact, a withdrawal from life, an… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pain from a… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management,… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
“Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine—they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God. — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Assimilate ubiquitously. Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false. Examples of this in everyday life: "oh, I need to… — Henry Barthes Copy Share Image
Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
A lot of times in spiritual communities, detachment is considered to be an expression of being spiritually evolved when often, we have… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
“Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am feeling fine. I remember these words and recite them. These are the things you say when asked how you are.… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent... But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary,… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
The benefits of detachment in the face of intense emotional activity can’t be overstated. It doesn’t cut you off from your heart… — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
