Clinging Quotes - Page 8

• The practice is to make the non-arising of grasping and clinging absolute, final, and eternally void, so that no grasping and clinging can ever return. Just that is enough. There is nothing else to do.

  Buddhadasa

  Practice, Finals, Void

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• Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Memories, Ignorance, Attachment

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• I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Hate, Ivy, Tree

  1777 Sir Oliver Surface. The School for Scandal, act 2, sc.3.

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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, Attachment, Names

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• Freedom from clinging gives room in our hearts to grow.

  Gil Fronsdal

  Heart, Giving, Rooms

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• Nephi taught that by clinging to the word of God, as though it be a handrail, we would be able to avoid temptations and not lose our way in darkness. Thus, we would remain on the narrow path.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Temptation, Darkness, Would Be

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• Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause -it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Believe, Today

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• We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.

  Junichiro Tanizaki

  Wall, Sight, Delight

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• What is the hope that can give meaning to life? Without some form of hope, the Holy Father argues that life becomes tedious and potentially burdersome, even if it is marked by material influence and technical progress. The person without hope finds himself in an existential difficulty: For what enduring purpose am I clinging to this life that I love and do not want to lose?

  Raymond J. de Souza

  Hope, Father, Giving

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• We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time this happens I am struck again by the permanent impassibility of the divide. Some people who have lost a husband or a wife report feeling that person's presence, receiving that person's advice. Some report actual sightings, what Freud described in "Mourning and Melancholia" as "a clinging to the object through the medium of a hallucinatory wishful psychosis." Others describe not a visible apparition but just a "very strongly felt presence."

  Joan Didion

  Husband, Self, Psychosis

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• Our souls, shamewounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more. She trusts me, her hand gentle, the longlashed eyes. Now where the blue hell am I bringing her beyond the veil? Into the ineluctable modality of the ineluctable visuality. She, she, she. What she?

  James Joyce

  Eye, Blue, Hands

  James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.431, Courier Dover Publications

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• The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works.

  John Calvin

  Blood, Faults, Christ

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• Clinging to each other won't save you maggots when the boot falls!

  Gangrel

  Fall, Boots, Maggots

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• Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Moving, Suffering, Flow

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• We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car. We are sucking, sobbing, clinging, helpless babies.

  Judith Viorst

  Baby, Jobs, Loss

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm so afraid to love you,
  But more afraid to lose.
  Clinging to a past that doesn't let me chose.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Love You, Past, Low Self Esteem

  "Song: 'I Will Remember You'". 2000.

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• In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in fear of God; albeit, the true foundation should be one's clinging to God in fear of God.

  Criss Jami

  Fear, Essence, World

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.53, Criss Jami

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• Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.

  Alice Miller

  Real, Ideas, Facts

  Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.42, Basic Books

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• The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they're attached to appearances, they're unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.

  Bodhidharma

  Fall, Long, Mind

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• The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent. We are wasting and degrading human life by clinging to archaic thinking.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Intelligent, Thinking, Class

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.115, Beacon Press

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• When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives.

  Eric Hoffer

  Loyalty, Dedication, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1951). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, New York : Harper

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• Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation - this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.

  Dogen

  Compassion, Evil, Worry

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• After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world. Later, as the earth's span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through time and space -- to another stopping place in the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of Mercury. But there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its horror-filled core, before the utter end.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Men, Vegetables, Civilization

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)”, p.1404, Delphi Classics

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• Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms, and little wildflowers.

  Roberto Bolano

  Flower, Lakes, Mushrooms

  "2666: A Novel". Book by Roberto Bolaño, 2008.

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• Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Song, Heart, Waiting

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.174, Macmillan

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