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“Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that walk naked among these hills, and I cannot withdraw from them without a burden and an ache. It is not a garment I cast off this day, bit a skin that I tear with my own hands... Yet I cannot tarry longer.”

Children Hands Pain Spirit Bits My Own Walks Streets Tears Regret Skins Longing Casts Burden Naked Hills Attachment This Day Ache Fragments Garments These Streets

Author:Khalil Gibran

“When your desires drop, the world is there, but it is a totally new world. It is so fresh, it is so colorful, it is so beautiful! But a mind attached to things cannot see it because eyes are closed with attachment.”

World Mind Eye Beautiful Desire Attachment New World Colorful

Author:Rajneesh

“Another related source of demonization is the homosexual relationship itself. [...] That attachment and communion are indeed inspired, but their source is demonic.”

Source Gay Inspired Related Attachment Communion Homosexual Demonic

Author:Andrew Comiskey

“The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life: your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away, but they're not punishing you, they're freeing your soul. If you're frightened of dying and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. If you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth.”

Ifs Made Soul Earth Memories Hell Dying Letting Go Devil Angel Your Soul Attachment Frightened Holding On Our Memories Love And Death

Author:Meister Eckhart

“Let not your love become attachment, nor your hate become destruction.”

Love Hate Love Is Becoming Destruction Islamic Attachment Love Hate Caliphs

Author:Umar

“Anything that really frightens you may contain a clue to enlightenment. It may indicate to you how deeply you are attached to structure, whether mental, physical, or social. Attachment and resistance are appearances with the same root: when you resist by pulling away your awareness, the emotion is one of fear, and the contraction is experienced as a pull like magnetism or gravity; that is, attachment. That is why we often fear to open our minds to more exalted spiritual beings. We think fear is a signal to withdraw, when in fact it is a sign we are already withdrawing too much.”

“It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see your bonds as self-created and break the chains of attachment and revulsion. Keep in mind your goal of freedom, until it dawns on you that you are already free, that freedom is not something in the distant future to be earned with painful efforts, but perennially one's own, to be used! Liberation is not an acquisition but a matter of courage, the courage to believe that you are free already and to act on it.”

“When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find that it is permeated with a light and a love you have never known; and yet you recognise it at once as your own nature. Once you have passed through this experience, you will never be the same man again; the unruly mind may break its peace and obliterate its vision; but it is bound to return, provided the effort is sustained; until the day when all bonds are broken, delusions and attachments end and life becomes supremely concentrated in the present.”

Ifs Men Mind May Ends Wisdom Light Spiritual Effort Known Vision Break Love You Broken Return Quiet Bounds Delusion Attachment Recognise Preoccupation Unruly

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Being attached is what prevents us from seeing, it is what clouds this miraculous awareness.”

Seeing Awareness Clouds Attachment Miraculous

Author:Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

“Samsaric pleasures are like salt water, the more we indulge, the more we crave.”

Suffering Water Pleasure Attachment Salt Crave Indulge Salt Water

Author:Sonam Rinchen

“We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.”

Men Suffering Literature Causes Theory Taste Mass Intellectual Fellows Devotion Discussion Abstract Attachment Oppressed Fellow Man Injured No Love Seducing Insulted

Author:George Ripley

“When you have lived longer in this world and outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love and pity for the race increase tenfold, your admiration and attachment to a particular party or opinion fall away altogether.”

World Life Fall Party Race Opinion This World Youth Particular Illusion Increase Pity Enthusiasm Attachment Admiration Enthusiastic

Book:John Ingelsant [by J.H. Shorthouse].

Source: John Ingelsant [by J.H. Shorthouse].

“When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.”

Attachment Music Business Very Deep

Author:Larry Mullen, Jr.

“Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.”

Life Ideas Enemy One Thing And Love Love Life Attachment

Author:Rajneesh

“The highest degree of love is Tatayyum (total enthrallment). The lowest degree is 'alaqah (attachment), when the heart is attached to the beloved: then comes sabahah (infatuation), when the heart is poured out: then gharam (passion), when love never leaves the heart: the nashaq (ardent love), and finally tatayyum.”

Heart Wisdom Passion Love Is Degrees Highest Beloved Islamic Attachment Lowest Infatuation Ardent

Author:Ibn Taymiyyah

“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.”

Ifs Way Mind Wells Has Beens Death Dies Wish Emotion Our Lives Violence Dying Peaceful Attachment Life Death Live Well Wish To Die

Author:Dalai Lama

“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."”

People Giving Mind Ends Moments Remember Death Dies Asks Advice Dying Masters Months Needed Blessing Pure Essence Died Guidance Attachment Eastern Provinces Aversion Tibet

Author:Sogyal Rinpoche

“Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains.”

Freedom Emotion Inspire Creating Wave Invisible Chains Iron Attachment

Author:S. N. Goenka

“An adept of Kriya Yoga conquers death by taking the soul beyond identification with the physical body, consciously and at will; and then returning to the consciousness of the mortal form again. By this process, he experiences the body as merely the material dwelling place of the soul. He can remain therein as long as he wants; and after that body has fulfilled its usefulness, he can quit it at will without suffering physical pain or mental pain due to attachment, and enter his omnipresent home in God.”

“The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The yogi is a conqueror of the grief associated with death. By control of mind and life force and the development of wisdom, he makes friends with the change of consciousness called death-he becomes familiar with the state of inner calmness and aloofness from identification with the mortal body.”

“The tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt them. In these honorable qualifications, I behold the surest pledges, that as on one side, no local prejudices, or attachments; no seperate views, nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests: so, on another, that the foundations of our National policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality...”

“Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it.”

Men Heart May Mean Country Eye Able America Values Liberty Ought Unions Dues Every Man His Eyes Attachment Cherish

Book:The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers

Source: The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers

“I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth there, there is more freedom, more ease, and less misery.”

Country America Wealth Advantage Misery Esteem Ease Native Attachment Exaggerated Native Country

Book:Memoirs Corespondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson Late, President of the United States: Now First Published the Original Manuscripts

Source: Memoirs Corespondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson Late, President of the United States: Now First Published the Original Manuscripts

“Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.”

Desire Trouble Letting Go Endure Passionate Dues Attachment Entity Passionate Desire

Book:My Tibet

Source: My Tibet

“I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.”

Humans States Human Beings Special Jew Makeup Attachment Heritage Entity Citizenship Swiss

Author:Albert Einstein

“I'm someone who had a deep emotional attachment to 'Starsky and Hutch.'”

Emotional Attachment Deep Emotional

Author:William J. Clinton

“Spending your time with true spiritual friends will fill you with love for all beings and help you to see how negative attachment and hatred are. Being with such friends, and following their example, will naturally imbue you with their good qualities, just as all the birds flying around a golden mountain are bathed in its golden radiance.”

Helping Spiritual Quality Example Mountain Bird Negative Hatred Following Spending Flying Golden Attachment Radiance Good Quality Bird Flying Spending Your Time

Author:Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

“The constitution ought to secure a genuine militia and guard against a select militia. ...All regulations tending to render this general militia useless and defenseless, by establishing select corps of militia, or distinct bodies of military men, not having permanent interests and attachments to the community ought to be avoided.”

Men Body Interest Community Military Ought Constitution Genuine Secure Useless Permanent Attachment Regulation Avoided Select Militia Defenseless Military Man

Author:Richard Henry Lee

“One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.”

Should Mind Moments Given Challenges Religious Innovation Clean Limitation Attachment Wipe Constraints

Author:Andrew Mason

“If you try too much to change the outside, that shows that you are still attached. If a man tries to be detached, it shows attachment. Why bother about detachment if you are not attached? If a man escapes from women, it shows that sex is still the obsession. Otherwise, why escape from women if you are not obsessed?”

Ifs Men Trying Stills Shows Sex Too Much Obsession Bother Obsessed Attachment Detachment Detached Why Bother

Author:Rajneesh

“You must choose between your attachments and happiness.”

Thinking Positive Thinking Attachment

Author:Adyashanti

“Live in Joy, In love, Even among those who hate. Live in joy, In health, Even among the afflicted. Live in joy, In peace, Even among the troubled. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.”

Knows Way Looks Stills Joy Hate Sweet Buddhist Attachment Joy Of Living

Author:Gautama Buddha

“There is no fire like greed, No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger of heart, And no joy like the joy of freedom. Health, contentment and trust Are your greatest possessions, And freedom your greatest joy. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.”

Knows Way Looks Heart Stills Joy Fire Crime Sweet Sorrow Hatred Greed Hunger Possession Separation Buddhist Sickness Contentment Attachment Joy Of Living

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The root of suffering is attachment”

Wisdom Suffering Buddhism Wise Words Words Of Wisdom Roots Philosopher Buddhist Attachment Wise Man Once Said Love And Affection

Author:Gautama Buddha

“I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.”

Inspiration Difficult Wise Conditions Logic Mere Secure Buddhist Excellent Subtle Attachment Unborn Tranquil

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he clings neither to sense-pleasures, nor does he cling to views, nor to precepts and vows, nor to a Self-doctrine. Not clinking, he is not disturbed; not disturbed, he attains individually nibbana.”

Doe Self Pleasure Views Ignorance Arise Doctrine Buddhist Attachment Abandoned Monk Vow Disturbed Clinging

Author:Gautama Buddha

“(The real brahmin is the one who:) ... has crossed beyond duality ...knows no this shore, other shore, or both ...(is) settled in mind ... without inflowing thoughts ...is without attachment ...endures undisturbed criticism, ill-treatment and bonds, (and is) strong in patience ...(is) without anger, devout, upright, free from craving, disciplined and in his last body ...has experienced the end of his suffering here in this life, who has set down the burden, freed!”

Knows Mind Real Ends Body Lasts Suffering Strong Criticism Endure Ill Burden Buddhist This Life Treatment Attachment Shore Craving Duality Brahmins Ill Treatment

Author:Gautama Buddha

“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.”

World Light Shining Finals Delight Buddhist Liberation Attachment Clinging Renunciation Shining Light

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.”

Doe Form Suffering Names Buddhist Attachment

Author:Gautama Buddha

“They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That's why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.”

“Attachment is the strongest block to realization.”

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Author:Neem Karoli Baba

“We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.”

Christian Fear Christianity Humility Trust Letting Go Curiosity Attachment Controlled Shifting Allegiance Entitlement Christian Humility

Book:The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom

Source: The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom

“Attachment is the source of all suffering.”

Suffering Source Grieving Attachment

Author:Gautama Buddha

“First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. ...Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego.”

Giving Trying Firsts Book Self Light Belief Sides Holy Ego Giving Up Emptiness Attachment Surround Lightning Splendor Luminous Illusory Holy Books Colorless

Author:Gautama Buddha

“We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.”

Important Dies Islamic Attachment Evident Hereafter

Author:Yasmin Mogahed

“There is one thing we know about meaning, that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are. The larger the thing that you can credibly attach yourself to, the more meaning you get out of life.”

Knows One Thing Evolution Bigger Attachment

Author:Joel Garreau

“If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.”

Ifs Knows Want Consciousness Attachment Elsewhere

Author:Adyashanti

“The more attached we are to a vision of the future, the less present we are to what is actually trying to emerge here and now.”

Trying Vision Future Attachment Here And Now Visions Of The Future

Author:Peter Merry

“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.”

World Life Firsts Flesh Attachment Shells Pearls Oysters

Author:Ian Gardner

“There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.”

Way Should Believe Made Real I Believe Deserve Distinction Patriotism Nationalism Attachment Insistence Fuzzy

Author:Todd Gitlin