“The problem with love is attachment; love makes you dependent. Unattached love - you love for the hell of it.” ProblemLove IsHellLove YouBuddhismSexualityDependentAttachment Author:Frederick Lenz
“Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he who loves God cultivates pure prayer, driving out every passion that keeps him from it. He who drives out self-love, the mother of the passions, will with God's help easily rid himself of the rest, such as anger, irritation, rancor and so on. But he who is dominated by self-love is overpowered by the other passions, even against his will. Self-love is the passion of attachment to the body.” MenSelfHelpingBodyMotherOrderPassionLosesPrayerLove IsSelf LovePureDrivingGod LoveRejectsAttachmentIrritationRancor Author:Maximus the Confessor
“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.” IfsLoveLifePersonsLove IsIndifferenceAttachmentIndifferentHis LoveBeing In LoveEgotismSelf CenteredNarcissisticEgoismLoving SomeoneWhen You Love SomeoneSelf AbsorbedCapacity To LoveArt Of LovingPersons LoveSymbiosisPsychoanalytic Book:THE ART OF LOVING Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“Most people suffer in love because of attachment. Attachment means we're interested in a net return on our investment.” PeopleMeanSufferingLove IsReturnYogaInvestmentAttachmentBhakti Yoga Author:Frederick Lenz
“You may know the pain of possessing and dependency, reducing persons to objects, but this is not love. Love doesn't attempt to bind, ensnare, capture. It is light, free of the burden of attachments. Love asks nothing, is fulfilled in itself. When love is there, nothing remains to be done.” KnowsMayPersonsDoneLightPainAsksLove IsObjectsRemainsBurdenAttachmentCaptureFulfilledReducingPossessingDependency Author:Vimala Thakar
“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.” IfsWayWantNeedsPersonsDifferentLove IsEnemyLove YouAttachmentMasquerade Book:Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are Source: Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are