Attachment Quotes - Page 11

• Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.

  John of the Cross

  Spiritual, Desire, Relax

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• Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue - just as fertile soul quickly becomes dry and arid and produces nothing but thorns and thistles if it is not cultivated.

  John Climacus

  Soul, Dry, Thorns

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• Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.

  Albert Ellis

  People, Detachment, Things You Love

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• Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.

  Marianne Williamson

  Happiness, Giving Up, Appreciate

  Marianne Williamson (1994). “Illuminata: A Return to Prayer”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. This doesn't mean you give up your intention to create your desire...and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result.

  Deepak Chopra

  Wisdom, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.

  Angeles Arrien

  Trust, Christian, Letting Go

  Angeles Arrien (2010). “The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. ...Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego.

  Gautama Buddha

  Giving Up, Book, Light

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• We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Islamic, Important, Hereafter

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• True power arises in knowing what you want, knowing what you don't want, expressing it clearly and lovingly without attachment to the outcome.

  Leonard Jacobson

  True Power, Knowing, Want

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• I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Love, Strong, Angel

  Charlotte Bronte (2015). “Jane Eyre, an Autobiography: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.395, 谷月社

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• Efficiency in an assembly requires a solid mass of steady votes; and these are collected by a deferential attachment to particular men, or by a belief in the principles that those men represent, and they are maintained by fear of those men - by the fear that if you vote against them, you may soon yourself have no vote at all.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men, Political, Principles

  Walter Bagehot (1930). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.103, Lulu.com

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• Those [American Jews] who favor the [Israeli] attack on Gaza are certainly guilty of such overwhelming emotional and cultural attachment to Israel and Israelis, that they long ago ceased viewing this conflict with any remnant of objectivity.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Emotional, Israel, Objectivity

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• The revolutionary can have no friendship or attachment, except for those who have proved by their actions that they, like him, are dedicated to revolution.

  Sergey Nechayev

  Revolution, Action, Dedicated

  "The Revolutionary Catechism" by Sergey Nechayev, www.marxists.org. 1869.

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• The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Firsts, World

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• Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to be male. Female heterosexuality is a set of social institutions and practices... Those definitions... are about the oppression and exploitation of women by men.

  Marilyn Frye

  Animal, Men, Heterosexuality Is

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• It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.

  Noah Levine

  Hate, Important, World

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• They charge us with anti-Semitism…The truth is, those hurling these charges harbor a 'passionate attachment' to a nation not our own that causes them to subordinate the interests of their own country and to act on an assumption that, somehow, what's good for Israel is good for America.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Israel, America

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• When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it seeks control and it fear loss. Ask your heart if attachment has replaced love. If we speak to our heart, it will always tell us the truth.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Loss, Needs

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• It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service.

  David Livingstone

  Desire, Missionary, Causes

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• I saw the duty and inestimable privilege _immediately_ to accept salvation by Christ. Humbly believing that through sovereign mercy and grace I have been enabled so to do, and having felt in some measure its effects on my still depraved and deceitful heart, it is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to his service.

  David Livingstone

  Believe, Heart, Grace

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• How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it

  Gautama Buddha

  Healing, Wonderful, Sticky

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• The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particularly spending on social services of one kind or another. But this foolish as well as muddled. It is foolish because left-of-centre parties will always be able to outbid right-of-centre ones in this auction - after all, that is why they are on the left in the first place. The muddle arises because once we concede that public spending and taxation are than a necessary evil we have lost sight of the core values of freedom.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Party, Sight, Evil

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• "I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Transformation

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.40, Penguin

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• The reflection, the verisimilitude, of life that shines in the fleshly cells from the soul source is the only cause of man's attachment to his body; obviously he would not pay solicitous homage to a clod of clay. A human being falsely identifies himself with his physical form because the life currents from the soul are breath-conveyed into the flesh with such intense power that man mistakes the effect for a cause, and idolatrously imagines the body to have life of its own.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Mistake, Men, Reflection

  Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (2008). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.472, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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• I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried to keep them all, but that quest soon became impossible; I now only keep the ones I'm sure I'm going to reread, the ones I'm definitely going to read before I die, and the ones I can't bear to part with because of an aesthetic or emotional attachment.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Book, Home, Emotional

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