Attachment Quotes - Page 14

• This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Soul, Doe, Break

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1018, Manonmani Publishers

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• Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Powerful, Emotional, Self

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• Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Cities, Dysfunction, Dying

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• I moved down the street like a cloud of awareness following a body that seemed simultaneously familiar and foreign. There was an incomprehensible attachment to that body, although it no longer felt like "mine". It continued to send out signals of its sensory perception, yet how or where those signals wwere being received was beyond comprehension.

  Suzanne Segal

  Clouds, Perception, Body

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• The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

  Bodhidharma

  Essence, Practice, Goal

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.47, Macmillan

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• Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You'll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy. Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are - no holding on, no attachment, free.

  Ajahn Chah

  Letting Go, Struggle, Burdens Of Life

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• Is not virtue a negation of becoming?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Becoming, Virtue, Detachment

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• Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Feelings, Flow, Detachment

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1945-1948): The Observer Is the Abserved”, Krishnamurti Foundation of Amer

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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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• How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Giving, God Love, Stills

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• 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 those souls, who, driving from their hearts everything that is not God, and does not lead them to his love, and giving themselves to him without reserve, truly say to him: My God and my all.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Heart, Giving, Soul

  "The Saint Alphonsus de Liguori Collection".

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• 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 rest is affection and attachment proceeding from imperfection; and in order that one may pass to any kind of perfection it is necessary for such desires to be killed.

  John of the Cross

  Spiritual, Heart, Order

  St John of the Cross (2011). “Dark Night of the Soul: (Authentic Original Classic)”, p.25, Destiny Image Publishers

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• 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 for you to remain in contemplation in your inward and recollected state, as to live in the natural state.

  Albertus Magnus

  Inward, Way, Easy

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• I scourge both flesh and spirit because I know that I have offended in both flesh and spirit.

  Peter Damian

  Flesh, Spirit, Scourge

  Peter Damian (2013). “Spiritual Precepts”, p.45, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Without mortification nothing can be done.

  Philip Neri

  Done, Mortification

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.38, St Athanasius Press

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• He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Wish, Delight

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• For the wisdom of the flesh brings death, but that of the spirit brings life and peace, since the wisdom of the flesh is the enemy of God; it is not subject to God's law, nor can it be. And since the wisdom of the flesh is unable to bear the yoke of God's law, it cannot look upon it either, for its eyes are clouded with the smoke of pride.

  Peter Damian

  Eye, Pride, Law

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• Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh, being too strong, kicks against the spirit, penance takes the rod of discipline, and fast, and the cilice of many buds, and mighty vigils; and places burdens enough on the flesh, that it may be more subdued. But if the body is weak, fallen into illness, the rule of discretion does not approve of such a method.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Strong, Discipline, Doe

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• Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity.

  Philip Neri

  Sanctity, Mortification

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.54, St Athanasius Press

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• He who does not mortify his palate will neither know how to mortify his flesh.

  Paul of the Cross

  Doe, Flesh, Palate

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• Some persons are so inclined to mortify themselves that at every opportunity they have, they do so. What a beautiful practice this is, and how profitable!

  Alphonsus Rodriguez

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Practice

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• We hold our tongues in check because if they are undisciplined they empty the soul of the strength of heavenly grace, and weaken its healthful vigour.

  Peter Damian

  Grace, Soul, Tongue

  Peter Damian (2013). “Spiritual Precepts”, p.53, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals.

  Alphonsus Rodriguez

  Teaching, Mean, Eye

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• 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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