Quotes by Attachment Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment. Caroline Knapp falling-in-love attachment dog A lot of people, quite frankly, think intense attachments to animals are weird and suspect, the domain of people who can't quite handle attachments to humans. Caroline Knapp attachment animal thinking Always recognize the dreamlike qualities of life and reduce attachment and aversion. Practice goodheartedness toward all beings. Be loving and compassionate, no matter what others do to you. What they do will not matter so much when you see it as a dream. The trick is to have positive intention during the dream. This is the essential point. This is true spirituality. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche attachment practice dream The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear. Charles James gratitude attachment mind I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature. Charles Lamb london attachment done Lose everything, even the attachment to holiness, so that you aim only at one thing: to love Chiara Lubich attachment goal love A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction. Christopher Lasch growing attachment depth Some of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret and need and hollowness and a feeling as close to anger as I will ever be able to manage. Colm Toibin regret pain attachment What is... disturbing to me is that many of these pro-Israeli lawmakers sit on the House International Relations Committee despite the obvious conflict of interest that their emotional attachments to Israel cause... The Israeli occupation of all territories must end, including Congress. Cynthia McKinney emotional attachment israel One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue. Dalai Lama attachment self-esteem inspirational The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life. Dalai Lama attachment pride helping-others We cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated by emotions like anger, attachment, or fear. So if we wish to die well, we must learn how to live well: Hoping for a peaceful death, we must cultivate peace in our mind, and in our way of life. Dalai Lama wish-to-die attachment death According to Buddhist practice, there are three stages or steps. The initial stage is to reduce attachment towards life. The second stage is the elimination of desire and attachment to this samsara. Then in the third stage, self-cherishing is eliminated Dalai Lama buddhist attachment self The compassion we feel normally is biased and mixed with attachment. Genuine compassion flows towards all living beings, particularly your enemies. If I try to develop compassion towards my enemy, it may not benefit him directly, he may not even be aware of it. But it will immediately benefit me by calming my mind. On the other hand, if I dwell on how awful everything is, I immediately lose my peace of mind. Dalai Lama attachment compassion hands Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities. Dalai Lama passionate-desire attachment letting-go Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective. Dalai Lama perspective vision attachment When the only bond between close friends is attachment, then even a minor issue may cause one's projections to change. As soon as our projections change, the attachment disappears, because that attachment was based solely on projection and expectation. It is possible to have compassion without attachment, and similarly, to have anger without hatred. Dalai Lama attachment compassion friendship Consciousness will always be present, though a particular Dalai Lama attachment body ignorance According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent. Dalai Lama buddhist psychology attachment When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's way. Dan Millman warrior attachment attitude «1234567891011»
