Quotes by Attachment Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same. A. G. Mohan attachmentrealizationmind I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art. Aby Rosen attachmentkidsart The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening. Adi Shankara attachmentrealdream As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality. Adi Shankara attachmentinspirationreality If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen. Adyashanti consciousnessattachmentwant You must choose between your attachments and happiness. Adyashanti positive-thinkingattachmentthinking Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed. In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer. Ajahn Chah attachmentnaturetaken There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still. Akkineni Nagarjuna buddhistattachmentmeditation Love is the language of the soul when it is not colored by emotion, ego, or attachment. Alan Finger egoattachmentlove I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive. Albert Camus owning-a-petattachmentdog 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 makeupattachmentspecial Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself. Albert Ellis detachmentattachmentpeople I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere. Alberto Manguel attachmentmothergiving In this way, if you continue all the time in the way we have described from the beginning, it will become as easy and clear for you to remain in contemplation in your inward and recollected state, as to live in the natural state. Albertus Magnus inwardattachmentway Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the principles and imbibe the spirit of our government; and to admit of a probability at least, of their feeling a real interest in our affairs. Alexander Hamilton governmentattachmentreal It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society. Alexander McCall Smith attachmentsightpeople We shuffle out of office buildings after being laid-off by draconian bosses; we sit on hold for ten minutes only to be told by a supervisor that the charge on our cable bill can't be removed; we click a crying emoji on Facebook as our last whimper of protest. So rather than end the story ["Ice Age"] with the expected violence and destruction of evil, I wanted to focus on the way the characters end up sabotaging their own community though their attachments to the consumerism of the old world. Alexander Weinstein iceattachmentcharacter One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love. So much meaning attached to this one little word. People bandied it about freely, using it to describe their attachments to possessions, pets, vacation destinations, and favorite foods. In the same breath they then applied this word to the person they considered most important in their lives. Wasn’t that insulting? Shouldn’t there be some other term to describe deeper emotion? Alexandra Adornetto vacationattachmentpeople Since the attachment to the cult of Islam is psychological, the solution must also be psychological. We have all the logical proof that Islam is false. But logic has its limitation. Brainwashed people dismiss logic and pride themselves in their blind faith. Psychological warfare is extremely powerful. The Muslim bravado must be destroyed by humiliations and ridicule. Ali Sina attachmentpowerfulpride Did Romeo and Juliet have a ... "relationship"? The term "relationship" ... betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment. Allan Bloom egalitarianismdegreesattachment1234567891011»
