Quotes by Attachment My body, thus, and all my good besides, And all my merits gained and to be gained, I give them all away withholding nothing To bring about the benefit of beings. Shantideva benefitsattachmentgiving To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it. Sharon Salzberg attachmentletting-gobeautiful With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire. Sharon Salzberg attachmentmeditationdesire Now when you transfer into the conscious parenting paradigm, you have to release those pressures and those fears... you actually think into the very ordinary but profound moment to moment connection to your children and you do away with those extraneous attachments to achievement or beauty or wealth or success. And while those things have their place, they don't overwhelm or override the life of the parent and child. Your life is actually suddenly liberated. Shefali Tsabary attachmentchildrenthinking People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of Wired magazine. [Then things began to change. In the early 80s,] we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy. Sherry Turkle technologyattachmentpeople My mother is my last point of security in relation to my past, and if that breaks, I will not ever have that type of pure love or pure attachment. Shirin Neshat attachmentmotherpast And we should forget, day by day, what we have done; this is true non-attachment. And we should do something new. To do something new, of course we must know our past, and this is alright. But we should not keep holding onto anything we have done; we should only reflect on it. And we must have some idea of what we should do in the future. But the future is the future, the past is the past; now we should work on something new. Shunryu Suzuki attachmentpastideas The yearning for the common good comes from the refusal to accept that perhaps Americans have very little in common apart from the elements of a sometimes successful civil religion based around a sentimental, indeed sometimes teary-eyed, attachment to the constitution and a belief in the quasi-divine wisdom of the founding fathers. Simon Critchley attachmentsuccessfulfather Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. Simone Weil attachmentspiritualreality Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached. Simone Weil attachmentwantreality What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones. Sogyal Rinpoche learningattachmentlife I remember how people would often come to see my master Jamyang Khyentse simply to ask for his guidance for the moment of death. He was so loved and revered throughout Tibet, especially in the eastern province of Kham, that some would travel for months on end to meet him and get his blessing just once before they died. All my masters would give this as their advice, for this is the essence of what is needed as you come to die: "Be free of attachment and aversion. Keep your mind pure. And unite your mind with Buddha." Sogyal Rinpoche attachmentblessingdeath Samsaric pleasures are like salt water, the more we indulge, the more we crave. Sonam Rinchen attachmentsufferingwater All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away. Sri Aurobindo conventionsattachmentdesire Nothing perceivable is real.Your attachment is your bondage. You cannot control the future.There is no such thing as free will. Will is bondage.You identify yourself with your desires and become their slave. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj attachmentrealdesire Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh, being too strong, kicks against the spirit, penance takes the rod of discipline, and fast, and the cilice of many buds, and mighty vigils; and places burdens enough on the flesh, that it may be more subdued. But if the body is weak, fallen into illness, the rule of discretion does not approve of such a method. St. Catherine of Siena disciplineattachmentstrong Your non attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the divine is your beauty. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar charmattachmentdivine When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team Sri Sri Ravi Shankar teamattachmentocean There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom meet and then only by chance, but whose existence nonetheless has for us a special if uncanny meaning. For me the Eiffel Tower is just such a friend, and not merely because it happens to be the symbol of a city, for Paris leaves me neither hot nor cold. I first became aware of this attachment of mine when reading in the paper about plans for its demolition, the mere thought of which filled me with alarm. Stanislaw Lem attachmentreadingcities Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing around it, without eliminating the pure witness of being. It is an active receptivity to life. Stephen Levine attachmentmindfeelings«1415161718192021222324»
