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• 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, without being crippled by your own judgment.

  Ralph Marston

  Letting Go, Meaningful, Creativity

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• It has always happened hitherto that whenever I have begun to feel an attachment to places, persons, or things, of a merely temporary nature, I have been carried away from them. Amen! May I live as a stranger and pilgrim upon the earth. May we be brought to that better country where painful changes are known no more.

  Henry Martyn

  Country, Earth, May

  Henry Martyn (1837). “Journals and letters of ... Henry Martyn ...”, p.237

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• If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.

  Adyashanti

  Want, Consciousness, Elsewhere

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• Don't be attached to the things of the world, and don't be attached to the things of the other world, because things are things. It makes no difference whether they are of this world or the other world - attachment is the problem.

  Rajneesh

  Other Worlds, Differences, Problem

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• Avoid duplicity, that is, do not let your heart be divided between attachment to God and attachment to earthly things, 'You cannot serve God and mammon' (Mt. 6:24); cling to God alone, put your trust in Him alone; for the Devil, by inciting us to duplicity, seeks himself to gain possession of our heart, which is single and indivisible.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Heart, Duplicity

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• We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

  Theodore Bikel

  Book, Yellow, Special

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• Love without attachment is light.

  Norman O. Brown

  Light

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 Edition”, p.260, Univ of California Press

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• I didn't spend a whole lot of time here, but I had the seven best years of my career in this city and having an attachment here 20-some odd years later is pretty special to me.

  Paul Coffey

  Years, Cities, Careers

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• We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.

  George Ripley

  Men, Intellectual, Suffering

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• In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Way, Live Free, Homosexual

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• If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

  John Barrymore

  Vacuums, Debt, Finance

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• To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

  Ramakrishna

  Mean, Punishment, Expectations

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• If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Loving Life, Wish, His Love

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.3, TAN Books

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• It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Fiction, Rich

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.131, Macmillan

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• A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

  Christopher Lasch

  Depth, Growing, Awareness

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• As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment; as long as ego is there, all these bind one.

  Rajneesh

  Passion, Love Is, Long

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• When the only bond between close friends is attachment, then even a minor issue may cause one's projections to change. As soon as our projections change, the attachment disappears, because that attachment was based solely on projection and expectation. It is possible to have compassion without attachment, and similarly, to have anger without hatred.

  Dalai Lama

  Friendship, Compassion, Issues

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• When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's way.

  Dan Millman

  Attitude, Warrior, Best Effort

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.208, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Attachment is the root cause of all misery - and our mind is such that it starts clinging to each and everything. It starts becoming identified, attached, it does not know how to keep a distance; hence the misery.

  Rajneesh

  Distance, Roots, Mind

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• Attachment is your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. Though it gives you the power to love someone more than yourself, it becomes difficult to live when you lose something you are attached to. Even when we have lost, we should go beyond that and get truly attached to someone. Loving someone truly is the most beautiful feeling.

  Shahid Kapoor

  Beautiful, Giving, Loving Someone

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• Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed. In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.

  Ajahn Chah

  Nature, Taken, People

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• 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 in misery. And attachment is such a disease that if the person is not there you are in misery, and if the person is there you are indifferent. Then it is okay; it is taken for granted. If the person is there it is okay - no more than that. If the person is not there, then you are in misery. This is attachment.

  Rajneesh

  Taken, Missing, Unhappy

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• Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.

  Ralph Marston

  Moving On, Letting Go, Moving Forward

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• True nonattachment is understanding that you are fundamentally attached to everything and, through that understanding, dropping your attachment to the view that you are detached from that which you encounter. At the same time, real nonattachment means not clinging to things or people. It means dropping the idea that if you don't have this or if you can't get that, your life will be a catastrophe.

  Brad Warner

  Life, Time, Real

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• Consciousness will always be present, though a particular
  consciousness may cease. For example, the particular tactile
  consciousness that is present within this human body will cease when
  the body comes to an end. Likewise, consciousnesses that are
  influenced by ignorance, by anger or by attachment, these too will
  cease. But the basic, ultimate, innermost subtle consciousness will
  always remain. It has no beginning, and it will have not end.

  Dalai Lama

  Ignorance, Body, May

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