Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'.
The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.
It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.
Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
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.
You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery.
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.
You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.
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.
Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.
It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.
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.
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.
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation.
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.
Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.
Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like? Imagine the freedoms that come from the ability to enjoy things without having to acquire them, own them, possess them. Try to envision a relationship based on acceptance and genuine care rather than expectation. Imagine feeling completely satisfied and content with your life just as it is. Who wouldn't want this? This is the enjoyment of non-attachment.
God loves all those who love him: I love them that love Me.
There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.
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.
Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent who nursed him; to the fond wife or child mayhap afterwards who loves him; to himself always and supremely--whatever may be his actual prosperity or ill fortune, his present age, illness, difficulties, renown, or disappointments--the dawn of his life still shines brightly for him, the early griefs and delights and attachments remain with him ever faithful and dear.
That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.
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