Quotes by Attachment The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results. Eknath Easwaran selfishattachmentspiritual I'm trying to use Palestine as a microcosm of the world, but maybe the world is a microcosm of Palestine. We're living in a moment that has lost attachment to the ideology behind boundaries. Elia Suleiman attachmentusetrying I don't want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but something that lingers. The idea is to have the images revisited. I want it to be something that also enhances the soul. I want the moment of pleasure to produce an attachment. Elia Suleiman attachmentsoulideas I'm always intrigued by people that listen to my music, I just naturally want to get to know people who listen to my music because people who end up having such an attachment with my stuff, I wonder why they have such a connection to something that's so personal to me in the first place. Ellie Goulding connectionsattachmentpeople Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours. Epictetus detachmentattachmentself-esteem If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Erich Fromm attachmentlovelife I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion. Feisal Abdul Rauf emotionalattachmentspiritual My dear fellow," he continued more soberly, "If you have managed to complicate things by forming a sentimental attachment in less than a week, then I doubt there is anything I can do for you. You, sir, are a romantic, and I suspect your condition is incurable. Frances Hardinge sentimentalattachmentdoubt It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have. Flannery O'Connor attachmentwritingfiction There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected. Francois Hollande freedomattachmentpeople This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom--the very fashion of which "passeth away. Francois Fenelon vanityfashionattachment Advanced meditators are not even desirous of liberation anymore - that is just another attachment. There is no liberation. There is no bondage. These are just ideas of the mind. Frederick Lenz attachmentmindideas Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of attachment, there are beings to gratify that love. If we thirst for life and love eternal, it is likely that there are an eternal life and an eternal love to satisfy that craving. Frederick William Robertson eternal-lovelife-and-loveattachment Attachment is the main thing that is blocking your path towards enlightenment. Garchen Rinpoche enlightenmentblockattachment The act of the soul, in surrendering itself into the hands of Christ, forms a connecting bond between Him as the Vine and the soul as the branches, which communicates life, strength, nourishment, and beauty. In a word, with a just view of the character, and a supreme attachment to the person of Christ, the believer yields himself into His hands as a full and complete Saviour. Him he receives; upon Him he rests, and rests for time and eternity. Gardiner Spring yieldattachmentcharacter They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time because they believed. Frederick Lenz buddhismattachmentinspirational Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world. Gautama Buddha buddhistattachmentlight The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices. Geoff Mulgan climateattachmentchoices Being attached is what prevents us from seeing, it is what clouds this miraculous awareness. Geoffrey Shugen Arnold attachmentawarenessclouds Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms. Gautama Buddha buddhistattachmentnames«23456789101112»
