Quotes by Attachment Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by. Mahmoud Darwish wallarmyattachment Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by our attachments to our opinions. We want others to be happy in the way we think they should be happy. It is only when we want nothing for ourselves that we are able to see clearly into others needs and understand how to serve them. Mahatma Gandhi attachmentyogathinking When a belief vanishes, there survives it -- more and more vigorously so as to cloak the absence of the power, now lost to us, of imparting reality to new things -- a fetishistic attachment to the old things which it did once animate, as if it was in them and not in ourselves that the divine spark resided, and as if our present incredulity had a contingent cause -- the death of the gods. Marcel Proust old-thingsattachmentreality It is attachment to creatures and to self-satisfaction that weakens the blessings of love in your heart. You must die to all that, if you wish the pure love of God to reign therein. Margaret Mary Alacoque attachmentblessingheart Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path. Mahatma Gandhi attachmentpathinspirational 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 partyattachmentsight When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside, and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside. Marianne Williamson surrenderattachmentletting-go Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke. Marianne Williamson giving-upattachmenthappiness The releasing of attachment to object and certain beliefs was already indelibly written as a very necessary step in my human progress toward being. Marlo Morgan progressattachmentsteps Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth. Mahatma Gandhi freedomattachmentrealization Money is not a problem, but unintelligent attachment to it is. Mata Amritanandamayi attachmentproblemspiritual Attachments to older forms of worship may be comfortable, but they may contain elements of falsehood that make them unacceptable to God. Max Anders elementsattachmentmay I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so. Mayim Bialik attachmentpeopleyears Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style. Mayim Bialik passivestyleattachment I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that. Mayim Bialik hormonesattachmentstudy Worry is the product of feverish imagination working under the stimulus of desires... It is a necessary resultant of attachment to the past or to the anticipated future, and it always persists in some form or other until the mind is completely detached from everything. Meher Baba attachmentimaginationpast When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me. Meister Eckhart experience-loveattachmentlove I think trauma gets a reductive treatment. We tend to think only violence or molestation or total abandonment qualify as "childhood trauma," but there are so many ruptures and disturbances in childhood that imprint themselves on us. Attachment begets trauma, in that broader sense, and so if we've ever been dependent on anyone, I think there is an Imago blueprint in us somewhere. Melissa Febos childhoodattachmentthinking Attachments and bereavements are inseparable. Mason Cooley bereavementattachmentloss Today give up false mental attachments and beliefs! Free yourself from the delusion that anything external can fulfill the hunger of your soul for God-Consciousness. Michael Beckwith giving-upattachmentinspirational«89101112131415161718»
