Attachment Quotes

516 quotes by 300 authors

It's not the appearance that binds you, it's the attachment to the appearance that binds you. — Tilopa
Just seeing the fact that this is an attachment, that attachment is a bondage - a beautiful word for bondage - that attachment is not… — Rajneesh
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others,… — Ralph Marston
Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers… — John Quincy Adams
Love without attachment is light. — Norman O. Brown
Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being. — Laozi
Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long… — John Ruskin
Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool - sooner or later he will… — Rajneesh
Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and… — Laozi
Much is being missed because of fear. We are too attached to the body and we go on creating more and more fear because of… — Rajneesh
My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding. — Rajneesh
One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. Don't get attached to anything. This attachment takes you away… — Rajneesh
Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with… — William Hazlitt
Remember remain alert that you don't get too much attached to the accidental - and all is accidental except your consciousness. Except your awareness, all… — Rajneesh
Sometimes we find that we like our thoughts so much that we don't want to let them go. — Pema Chodron
Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving… — Rob Reiner
The honey in the flower or lotus does not crave for bees; they do not plead with the bees to come. Since they have tasted… — Sathya Sai Baba
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human… — William Bartram
The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents… — Mahatma Gandhi
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 attachments. Reflect people,… — Rajneesh

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