quotes about Clinging
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When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.
-- BodhidharmaSource : Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.41, Macmillan
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I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
-- Christopher Lasch -
Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.
-- Edward St Aubyn -
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I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out.
-- Freya North -
Clinging to each other won't save you maggots when the boot falls!
-- Gangrel -
Freedom from clinging allows us bring love into all aspects of our life.
-- Gil Fronsdal -
Fear has never helped anybody make good choices. It leads to clinging when we should be walking.
-- Harriet Lerner -
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When you are unhappy, discover what you are clinging to and let it go.
-- Jan Chozen BaysSource : Jan Chozen Bays (2011). “How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness”, p.110, Shambhala Publications
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Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.
-- Luce IrigaraySource : Luce Irigaray (1985). “This Sex which is Not One”, p.214, Cornell University Press
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What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.
-- Ram Dass -
There's no point in clinging to illusions.
-- Eva HellerSource : Eva Heller (1992). “With the next man everything will be different”, Random House Inc
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It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us.
-- Tilopa