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• Jewish history turns out not to be an either/or story - as in, either pure Judaism detached from its surroundings or else assimilation - but rather, for the vast majority, the adventure of living in between.

  Simon Schama

  Adventure, Majority, Stories

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• We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Successful, Miserable, Humans

  Harry Stack Sullivan (2013). “The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry”, p.18, Routledge

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• In trusting, we let ourselves go. We know that all kinds of unexpected events may come our way. Our tension eases, our mind and our hearts open spontaneously to be possibilities. It is an ever new state of mind, in the present moment, because we have detached from all we know. But it is also a feeling as old as can be, because, before all betrayals and all disappointments, there was a time in which trusting another was the very substance of our life.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Disappointment, Betrayal, Heart

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• The Great Being saith: Human utterance is an essence which aspireth to exert its influence and needeth moderation. As to its influence, this is conditional upon refinement which in turn is dependent upon hearts which are detached and pure. As to its moderation, this hath to be combined with tact and wisdom as prescribed in the Holy Scriptures and Tablets.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Heart, Essence, Utterance

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• The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people.

  Emma Goldman

  People, Needs, Movement

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.117, 谷月社

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• When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any general notion and detached from the sanity of a cause, isolated and inexplicable in the light of ignorance, then and only then may it be a source of enchantment.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Ignorance, Independent

  Samuel Beckett (1970). “The collected works of Samuel Beckett”

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• This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked, and through whom the experiences of the world pass like the reflections of birds flying over water.

  Alan Watts

  Mean, Reflection, Water

  Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

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• What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from the influence of the two or three greatest friendships of my life, and any account of my own growth must be that of their stimulating and enlightening influence.

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Fate, Thinking

  Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.128, Edith Wharton

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