Attachment Quotes - Page 18

• When all of the selves have been dissolved, you will enter into the super-conscious awareness. Then, you are free. Then, there is no suffering. Then, there is no attachment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Suffering, Awareness

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• My body, thus, and all my good besides, And all my merits gained and to be gained, I give them all away withholding nothing To bring about the benefit of beings.

  Shantideva

  Giving, Benefits, Body

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• Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he who loves God cultivates pure prayer, driving out every passion that keeps him from it. He who drives out self-love, the mother of the passions, will with God's help easily rid himself of the rest, such as anger, irritation, rancor and so on. But he who is dominated by self-love is overpowered by the other passions, even against his will. Self-love is the passion of attachment to the body.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Mother, Prayer, Passion

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• Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of, say, chapter two and have thought: “This is where the novel should actually start.” A huge amount of information about character and backstory can be conveyed through small detail. The emotional attachment you feel to a scene or a chapter will fade as you move on to other stories. Be business-like about it.

  Sarah Waters

  Crazy, Moving, Character

  "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Joy, Desire

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• The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.

  Adi Shankara

  Dream, Real, World

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• The yearning for the common good comes from the refusal to accept that perhaps Americans have very little in common apart from the elements of a sometimes successful civil religion based around a sentimental, indeed sometimes teary-eyed, attachment to the constitution and a belief in the quasi-divine wisdom of the founding fathers.

  Simon Critchley

  Father, Successful, Divine Wisdom

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• The difference between the Japanese and the American is summed up in their opposite reactions to the proverb (popular in both nations), "A rolling stone gathers no moss." Epidemiologist S. Leonard Syme observes that to the Japanese, moss is exquisite and valued; a stone is enhanced by moss; hence a person who keeps moving and changing never acquires the beauty and benefits of stability. To Americans, the proverb is an admonition to keep rolling, to keep from being covered with clinging attachments.

  Carol Tavris

  Moving, Opposites, Differences

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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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• For the most part, for me and my friends, there's always an emotional attachment that clouds women's judgment.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Emotional, Clouds, Judgment

  "Zoe Lister-Jones Talks LOLA VERSUS, Her Ambitions to Direct and Write a Novel, and Her Next Film MOTHERFUCKER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 7, 2012.

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• How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and thoroughly renouncing such vanities, flying to the Saviour's Cross, and clasping His Crown of thorns to your heart, so that these little foxes may not spoil your vines. Beware of entering into any manner of treaty with the Enemy; do not delude yourself by listening to him while intending to reject him.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Heart, Vanity, Flying

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.249, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote ourselves to satisfying it, rather than to enriching our soul, which is so great that we can conceive nothing greater - no, nothing, nothing!

  John Vianney

  Soul, Body, Corruption

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• When a belief vanishes, there survives it -- more and more vigorously so as to cloak the absence of the power, now lost to us, of imparting reality to new things -- a fetishistic attachment to the old things which it did once animate, as if it was in them and not in ourselves that the divine spark resided, and as if our present incredulity had a contingent cause -- the death of the gods.

  Marcel Proust

  Reality, Old Things, Sparks

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.581, Modern Library

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• Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point of no longer committing faults in speech, he has surely reached perfection, as was said by the Holy Spirit. The worst defect in talking is talking too much. Hence, in speech be brief and virtuous, brief and gentle, brief and simple, brief and charitable, brief and amiable.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Simple, Talking, Perfection

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• Most people suffer in love because of attachment. Attachment means we're interested in a net return on our investment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Mean, Love Is

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• As your love grows, you will find that your attachment to this world will begin to fall away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Fall, World

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• Selfless giving reminds us that there is an eternally present spirit in all of us, that when revealed, liberates us from both the transitory and the eternal - both of which ultimatly can be attachments.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Selfless Giving

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• The body will blossom and fade, but you will remain after this body of yours has gone away. This knowledge allows you to love the body without attachment. Thus, the body becomes absolutely pure.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Gone Away, Body

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• As you learn to accept that the body is transitory, as you watch it with love, but without attachment, the body will develop purity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Watches, Body

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