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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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• Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities

  Deepak Chopra

  Fields, Steps, Possibility

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.60, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Suffering, Desire, Craving

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• We forgive when we give up attachment to our wounds.

  Lewis Hyde

  Giving Up, Forgiving, Wounds

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• What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the innerforce of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air--a book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Book, Writing

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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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• Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

  Bodhidharma

  Transformation, Birth, Clinging

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.41, Macmillan

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• As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Slave, Masters

  Dave DeLuca, Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.180, New World Library

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• As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Misery, Miserable, Feels

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.58, Advaita Ashrama

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• The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty.

  Emile Durkheim

  Wise, Men, Knowing

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.217, Routledge

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• Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Compulsion

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.61, Advaita Ashrama

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• How happy I will be if I keep my heart free from attachment to anyone, and chained to Jesus, my God, alone... I will devote all my efforts to this end... I will go before the Blessed Sacrament, and there sign these resolutions with my blood.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Jesus, Blessed, Heart

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• Our misery comes, not from work, but by our getting attached to something. Take for instance, money: money is a great thing to have, earn it, says Krishna; struggle hard to get money, but don't get attached to it. So with children, with wife, husband, relatives, fame, everything; you have no need to shun them, only don't get attached. There is only one attachment and that belongs to the Lord, and to none other.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Husband, Struggle

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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• If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.

  Anthony de Mello

  Emotional, Names, Suffering

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• When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Team, Ocean, Waiting

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• Once you lose attachment to how you want things to be because you realize you don't control anything, there's a curiously liberating aspect of that. I've always been a control freak, I've always felt that if I try hard enough, everyone I love will be kept safe and everything will be okay. Being shown, in such brutal terms, that that's simply not the way it works, in someways, it messed me up.  I've been through hell, but on another level, if you pile up so much tragedy, it either destroys you, or you just start laughing about it. Because at the end of the day, no one gets out alive.

  Daniele Bolelli

  Laughing, Trying, Tragedy

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• In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Children, Joy

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1960). “Self-realization Magazine”

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• It's very rare to be in a state where there's nothing in, where you have no attachment to any idea or concept about yourself. In that state you've immediately raised the mind of compassion, because if nothing is in, everything is in, and you are now free to experience yourself as the world.

  Bernie Glassman

  Compassion, Experience Yourself, Ideas

  Bernie Glassman, Jeff Bridges (2013). “The Dude and the Zen Master”, p.92, Random House

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• Always recognize the dreamlike qualities of life and reduce attachment and aversion. Practice goodheartedness toward all beings. Be loving and compassionate, no matter what others do to you. What they do will not matter so much when you see it as a dream. The trick is to have positive intention during the dream. This is the essential point. This is true spirituality.

  Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

  Dream, Practice, Quality

  "Life in Relation to Death". Second Edition,

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• Attachment is the main thing that is blocking your path towards enlightenment.

  Garchen Rinpoche

  Block, Enlightenment, Path

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• The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.

  Charles James

  Gratitude, Mind, Humans

  "Queen Victoria's Little Wars". Book by Byron Farwell, p. 27-31, 1972.

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• The intelligence displayed by many dumb animals approaches so closely to human intelligence that it is a mystery. The animals see and hear and love and fear and suffer. They use their organs far more faithfully than many human beings use theirs. They manifest sympathy and tenderness toward their companions in suffering. Many animals show an affection for those who have charge of them, far superior to the affection shown by some of the human race. They form attachments for man which are not broken without great suffering to them.

  Ellen G. White

  Animal, Men, Race

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Miscellaneous Periodical Articles - Book III of III”, p.305, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats' phrase, "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Intense emotional attachment to any value, any virtue, any set of "shoulds" is a disease, a mental illness, a condition of self-murder and cultural assassination.

  Brad Blanton

  Crazy, Emotional, Self

  Brad Blanton (1996). “Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth”, Dell

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• From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a box already built for us to fit inside. Our umbilical cord never seems to be severed; we only find new needs to fill. If we disconnected and severed our attachments, would we shatter our confinements and expand beyond our shell? Would the world look different? Would we recognize ourselves? Are we the box that we are inside, and to be authentically 'un-contained' would we still be able to exist? This is the irony of containment. As long as we don't push on the walls of our surroundings, we may never know how strong we really are.

  Paige Bradley

  Strong, Wall, Long

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