Attachment Quotes

516 quotes by 300 authors

Become alert about desire and non-attachment begins to appear. This is not to be made to happen, it follows naturally from awareness of attachment. Each… — Rajneesh
Attachment is the root cause of all misery - and our mind is such that it starts clinging to each and everything. It starts becoming… — Rajneesh
Identification with the body, with the mind, with our possessions, with our families, with our friends - any kind of identification takes you outwards. All… — Rajneesh
Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment. — Rajneesh
To remain attached to the temporal, to the changing is to remain within the world of misery because the temporal will be taken away. You… — Rajneesh
Your ego may be just a soap bubble. Maybe for a few seconds it will remain, rising higher in the air. Perhaps for a few… — Rajneesh
Everything comes out of nothingness and goes back into nothingness. Hence there is no need for attachment, because attachment will bring misery. Soon it will… — Rajneesh
When you are not the doer how can the attachment happen? You do a small thing and you become attached. You say, "I have done… — Rajneesh
Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality. — Rajneesh
Attachment is misery, but from the very beginning the child is taught for attachment. The mother will say to the child, "Love me; I am… — Rajneesh
If you get attached, then it becomes an obsession. If the person is not there, you are unhappy. If you miss the person, you are… — Rajneesh
God loves all those who love him: I love them that love Me. — Alphonsus Liguori
Many, however, gives themselves to God, but preserve still in their hearts some attachment to creatures, which prevents them from belonging entirely to God. — Alphonsus Liguori
How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still? — Alphonsus Liguori
It is just that he should act with reserve towards those who act with reserve towards him. On the contrary, he gives himself entirely to… — Alphonsus Liguori
For true devotion must issue from the heart, and consist in the truth and substances alone of what is represented by spiritual things; all the… — John of the Cross
In this way, if you continue all the time in the way we have described from the beginning, it will become as easy and clear… — Albertus Magnus
I scourge both flesh and spirit because I know that I have offended in both flesh and spirit. — Peter Damian
Without mortification nothing can be done. — Philip Neri
There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears. — Teresa of Avila

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