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• Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'.

  Rajneesh

  Ego, Shadow

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• Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

  John Ruskin

  Friendship, Men, Long

  John Ruskin (1904). “The works of John Ruskin”

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• It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.

  Rod Stryker

  Pain, Suffering, Desire

  "Yoga and Your Soul’s Four Desires" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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• Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

  Laozi

  Family, True Friend, Hate

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Goodbye, Winning

  "Tao Te Ching". Book by Laozi, Ch. 48, as translated by Raymond B. Blakney (1955), c. 6th - 5th century BC.

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• You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery.

  Rajneesh

  Misery

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• I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.

  Albert Einstein

  Makeup, Special, Heritage

  Letter to Alfred Kneser, 7 June 1918

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• You must choose between your attachments and happiness.

  Adyashanti

  Positive Thinking, Thinking

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• Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Liberty, Earth, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.119, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

  Jane Austen

  Circles, Interest

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.952, Wordsworth Editions

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• I think it helps the writers to sell their books, if they announce my attachment, but it doesn't mean that I'm going to make the movies in the next year, or two, or three.

  James Franco

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  "Danny McBride and James Franco Interview YOUR HIGHNESS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 7, 2011.

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• Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.

  Rajneesh

  Roots, Ego, Causes

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• It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Offering, Humanity, Doe

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

  Bede Griffiths

  Mother, Children, Giving Up

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• Attachment brings misery, unattachment brings blissfulness. So use things, but don't be used by them. Live life but don't be lived by it. Possess things, but don't be possessed by them. Have things - that's not a problem. I am not for renunciation. Enjoy everything that life gives, but always remain free.

  Rajneesh

  Live Life, Giving, Use

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• Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

  Ramakrishna

  Names, Comfort, May

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• If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Way, Liberation, Ifs

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3338, Manonmani Publishers

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• Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings damp sand on the fires of greed and war; His left paw in the Mudra of Comradely Display - indicating that all creatures have the full right to live to their limits and that deer, rabbits, chipmunks, snakes, dandelions, and lizards all grow in the realm of the Dharma.

  Gary Snyder

  War, Cutting, Animal

  Gary Snyder (2009). “Back on the Fire: Essays”, p.125, Counterpoint

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• Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Saint, Flesh, Penance

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• Live today. Let go of your attachment to your past as an excuse for your life conditions today. You are the product of the choices you are making right now.

  Wayne Dyer

  Letting Go, Past, Choices

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 27, 2013

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• If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Struggle, Roots, Suffering

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• God loves all those who love him: I love them that love Me.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  God Love

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• Without uncertainty and the unknown, life is just a stale repetition of outworn memories. You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is yourself left over from yesterday. Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities.

  Deepak Chopra

  Memories, Past, Yesterday

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• Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Path, Renounce

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