Quotes by Attachment A witnessing consciousness lives in life but with tremendous non-attachment, with great non-possessiveness; it possesses nothing. It lives totally, it lives passionately, but still knowing that I don't possess anything. Rajneesh consciousnessattachmentknowing Attachment is not love. Where there is attachment there is exploitation. Rajneesh exploitationattachment Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'. Rajneesh egoshadowattachment You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery. Rajneesh miseryattachment If attachment is the conditioning factor, then non-attachment will become the unconditioning factor. If expectation leads you in misery, then non-expectation will lead you into non-misery. If anger creates a hell within you, then compassion will create a heaven. So whatsoever the process of misery, the reverse will be the process of happiness. Unconditioning means you have to understand the whole knotted phenomenon of human consciousness as it is. Rajneesh attachmentcompassionmean Become alert about desire and non-attachment begins to appear. This is not to be made to happen, it follows naturally from awareness of attachment. Each one of us has to become aware of his attachments, and keep being so! Nothing should be done unconsciously. Rajneesh attachmentdonedesire Attachment is the root cause of all misery - and our mind is such that it starts clinging to each and everything. It starts becoming identified, attached, it does not know how to keep a distance; hence the misery. Rajneesh distanceattachmentroots Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment. Rajneesh egosourceattachment When you are not the doer how can the attachment happen? You do a small thing and you become attached. You say, "I have done this." You would like everybody to know that you have done this and you have done that. This ego is the barrier for the supreme understanding. Drop the doer and let things happen. That's what Tilopa means by being loose and natural. Rajneesh egoattachmentmean If you get attached, then it becomes an obsession. If the person is not there, you are unhappy. If you miss the person, you are in misery. And attachment is such a disease that if the person is not there you are in misery, and if the person is there you are indifferent. Then it is okay; it is taken for granted. If the person is there it is okay - no more than that. If the person is not there, then you are in misery. This is attachment. Rajneesh attachmenttakenmissing Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things. Richard J. Foster insaneattachmentneeds Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life. Rob Reiner loving-lifeattachmentgun They are the kinds of things that make us a community: attachment to place, attachment to local arts traditions, the ability to read literature, the ability to look at paintings, the sense of connectedness to the land, the sense of community that comes from people taking care of their own. Robert Hass attachmentlandart Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size of a gift, it is its quality and the amount of mental attachment you overcome that count. So don't bankrupt yourself on a momentary positive impulse, only to regret it later. Give thought to giving. Give small things, carefully, and observe the mental processes going along with the act of releasing the little thing you liked. Robert Thurman regretattachmentpractice I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it. Robert Stone attachmentspiritualthinking It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring Robyn Davidson dutypainattachment It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering. Rod Stryker painattachmentsuffering Lack of opportunity breeds dreams of escape. But professionals and managers who have invested in their careers do not leave the work force as frequently as discouraged workers in lower status occupations. Instead, they keep working, but they escape emotionally by defining achievement in professional, not company, terms. ... Thus, the potential for being stuck as career uncertainty grows takes its toll in weakening attachment to any particular employer. Rosabeth Moss Kanter attachmentdreamopportunity How evanescent those loves and friendships seem at this distance in time…We move on, make new attachments. We grow old. But sometimes, we hanker for old friendships, the old loves. Sometimes I wish I was young again. Or that I could travel back in time and pick up the threads. Absent so long, I may have stopped loving you, friends; but I will never stop loving the Day I loved you. Ruskin Bond distanceattachmentmoving The emotional attachment you get with a client or the music fan allows you access to do a lot of things. Russell Simmons emotionalfansattachment«1314151617181920212223»
