Attachment Quotes - Page 9

• Your mortal attachments are like a puppet’s strings," Avari said, both hands clasped casually at his back. "One need only pluck the right cord to make the puppet dance." His smile was almost creepier than his threats. "Dance, reaper!

  Rachel Vincent

  Hands, Puppets, Needs

  Rachel Vincent (2013). “With All My Soul”, p.196, Harlequin

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• All our attachments are outward oriented and hence this illusion.

  Rajneesh

  Illusion

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• Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Happiness, Enjoy

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Everyday Wisdom for Success (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects these very things about Indian traditions, without adopting those respected ways themselves.

  Linda Hogan

  Land, Justice, Diversity

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• The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If you are very joyful about doing negative things or about being busy with meaningless activities, this is not called joyful exertion from a Buddhist point of view. This kind of attitude is actually a form of laziness, an attachment to frivolous activities. Such a person would not be considered diligent at all. But if you are JOYFUL and DETERMINED TO PERFORM POSITIVE ACTIONS, then as a result, you discover and learn many new things that you didn't know about before.

  Geshe Gyeltsen

  Determination, Buddhist, Attitude

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• I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.

  Tom Waits

  Acceptance, Whatsapp, Cool Status

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• There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into a perpetual awareness that makes a person forget the past, for it kindles fiercely in the heart the sweet and overwhelming hope of the coming future.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Sweet, Heart

  Khalil Gibran “Khalil The Heretic”, Library of Alexandria

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• The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.

  Dalai Lama

  Pride, Helping Others, Hatred

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.135, Penguin Books India

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• Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Happiness, Attitude, Acceptance

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.82, Basic Books

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• From a spiritual perspective, freedom from attachment to a particular outcome is the ultimate expression of liberation. We can choose the actions we take, but we cannot control the consequences of our choices.

  David Simon

  Spiritual, Expression, Perspective

  David Simon, M.D. (2010). “The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices”, p.28, Health Communications, Inc.

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• To empty the heart does not mean to not love. On the contrary, true love, as God intented it, is purest when it is not based on a false attachment. The process of first emptying the heart can be found in the beginning half of the shahada (declaration of faith).

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Heart, Mean, Doe

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• They charge us with anti-Semitism…The truth is, those hurling these charges harbor a 'passionate attachment' to a nation not our own that causes them to subordinate the interests of their own country and to act on an assumption that, somehow, what's good for Israel is good for America.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Israel, America

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• Lust, Greed, Anger, Attachment - These are all paths to hell.

  Neem Karoli Baba

  Greed, Lust, Path

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• This world is all attachment. Yet you get worried because you are attached.

  Neem Karoli Baba

  World, Worried, This World

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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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• 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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• It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service.

  David Livingstone

  Desire, Missionary, Causes

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• I saw the duty and inestimable privilege _immediately_ to accept salvation by Christ. Humbly believing that through sovereign mercy and grace I have been enabled so to do, and having felt in some measure its effects on my still depraved and deceitful heart, it is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to his service.

  David Livingstone

  Believe, Heart, Grace

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• How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it

  Gautama Buddha

  Healing, Wonderful, Sticky

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• The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particularly spending on social services of one kind or another. But this foolish as well as muddled. It is foolish because left-of-centre parties will always be able to outbid right-of-centre ones in this auction - after all, that is why they are on the left in the first place. The muddle arises because once we concede that public spending and taxation are than a necessary evil we have lost sight of the core values of freedom.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Party, Sight, Evil

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• "I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Transformation

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.40, Penguin

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• We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.

  Angeles Arrien

  Trust, Christian, Letting Go

  Angeles Arrien (2010). “The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. ...Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego.

  Gautama Buddha

  Giving Up, Book, Light

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