Quotes by Attachment As you learn to accept that the body is transitory, as you watch it with love, but without attachment, the body will develop purity. Frederick Lenz buddhism attachment watches The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness. Guy Finley attachment letting-go thinking There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment. Harriet Ann Jacobs slave-girl attachment kindness There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a long-term partner. These circuits are deeply embedded in the human brian. They're going to survive as long as our species survive on what Shakespeare called, this "mortal coil." Helen Fisher romantic-love attachment sex When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment. Helen Fisher oxytocin attachment brain No words, phrases, or sentences are capable of describing or naming the Way, because once it is named, it is a false name and has to be eliminated. Once it is eliminated, only emptiness is left. When the false is abandoned, the true emerges. Henry Chang attachment wisdom names It has always happened hitherto that whenever I have begun to feel an attachment to places, persons, or things, of a merely temporary nature, I have been carried away from them. Amen! May I live as a stranger and pilgrim upon the earth. May we be brought to that better country where painful changes are known no more. Henry Martyn attachment earth country Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to material success, or the clinging to it, is an attachment. Frederick Lenz attachment self ideas The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh. Ian Gardner oysters attachment life Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious. Idries Shah attachment pride religious Liberals retain a totemic attachment to the Freudian idea that traumatic toilet training is destiny. Ilana Mercer destiny attachment ideas Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment. Ilka Chase distance attachment may I don't really get nervous for auditions, because I just see them as mini acting classes. There's no need to have an attachment to the outcome because it's out of your hands after that. Isabel Lucas attachment class hands The biggest energy losses for most people are relationships, interrelations with other people. That is where we lose the most energy, through our attachments - opening up to people who might be very nice on the surface but underneath they have a lot of problems. Frederick Lenz nice attachment loss The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them.” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want.” This isn’t love at all - it is attachment - and attachment is rigid, it is very different from love. Jack Kornfield attachment love-you love-is When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it seeks control and it fear loss. Ask your heart if attachment has replaced love. If we speak to our heart, it will always tell us the truth. Jack Kornfield attachment loss heart Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them. James Franco attachment body men But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a political system which betrays so many marks of infirmity, and disappoints so many of their flattering hopes. No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected, without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability. James Madison government attachment heart In the mountains, worldly attachments are left behind, and in the absence of material distractions, we are opened up to spiritual thought. We should be attempting to carry the spiritual experience of the mountains with us everywhere. Jamling Tenzing Norgay mountain attachment spiritual Thousands and thousands of incarnations and nothing to show for it. You must choose whether to follow the path of love or the path of attachment. Frederick Lenz path-of-love buddhism attachment «4567891011121314»
