Attachment Quotes

516 quotes by 300 authors

The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to fear, to all… — Ram Dass
A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils — George Washington
According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent. — Dalai Lama
Giving up attachment to the world does not mean that you set yourself apart from it. Generating a desire for others to be happy increases… — Dalai Lama
Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing. — Mikhail Naimy
Lust, Greed, Anger, Attachment - These are all paths to hell. — Neem Karoli Baba
This world is all attachment. Yet you get worried because you are attached. — Neem Karoli Baba
It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x) — Ravi Ravindra
Mindfulness is an ancient meditation mode in which we let go of our fears, our attachments to control and being right, our expectations and entitlements,… — David Richo
Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached. — Simone Weil
The compassion we feel normally is biased and mixed with attachment. Genuine compassion flows towards all living beings, particularly your enemies. If I try to… — Dalai Lama
Today give up false mental attachments and beliefs! Free yourself from the delusion that anything external can fulfill the hunger of your soul for God-Consciousness. — Michael Beckwith
When there is time, there has to be suffering. Because in time there's desire and attachment and transition. This is the world of experience. — Frederick Lenz
In countries where there is no marriage, there is no duty between husband and wife; when marriage comes, husband and wife live together on account… — Swami Vivekananda
In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is our greatest strength,… — Rachel Naomi Remen
As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes… — Adi Shankara
Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment. — Swami Vivekananda
But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a political… — James Madison
Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer mind. — Swami Vivekananda
The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non - attachment to life, because it is the will to enjoy that… — Swami Vivekananda

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