Quotes and Sayings About Attachment
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Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.
-- A. G. Mohan -
As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.
-- Adi Shankara -
You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
-- Adyashanti -
If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
-- Adyashanti -
Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You'll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy. Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are - no holding on, no attachment, free.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed. In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Love is the language of the soul when it is not colored by emotion, ego, or attachment.
-- Alan Finger -
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.
-- Albert Einstein -
Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.
-- Albert Ellis -
I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere.
-- Alberto Manguel -
In this way, if you continue all the time in the way we have described from the beginning, it will become as easy and clear for you to remain in contemplation in your inward and recollected state, as to live in the natural state.
-- Albertus Magnus -
Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the principles and imbibe the spirit of our government; and to admit of a probability at least, of their feeling a real interest in our affairs.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love. So much meaning attached to this one little word. People bandied it about freely, using it to describe their attachments to possessions, pets, vacation destinations, and favorite foods. In the same breath they then applied this word to the person they considered most important in their lives. Wasn’t that insulting? Shouldn’t there be some other term to describe deeper emotion?
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
Did Romeo and Juliet have a ... "relationship"? The term "relationship" ... betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.
-- Allan Bloom -
If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
God loves all those who love him: I love them that love Me.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
It is just that he should act with reserve towards those who act with reserve towards him. On the contrary, he gives himself entirely to those souls, who, driving from their hearts everything that is not God, and does not lead them to his love, and giving themselves to him without reserve, truly say to him: My God and my all.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
Many, however, gives themselves to God, but preserve still in their hearts some attachment to creatures, which prevents them from belonging entirely to God.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
Some persons are so inclined to mortify themselves that at every opportunity they have, they do so. What a beautiful practice this is, and how profitable!
-- Alphonsus Rodriguez -
A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather like unrequited love, like a symptom of the hopelessness of trying to grasp what is boundless, or unite what cannot be joined; a reminder of how finite, how curtailed, our experience on earth must be
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
Another related source of demonization is the homosexual relationship itself...That attachment and communion are indeed inspired, but their source is demonic.
-- Andrew Comiskey -
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.
-- Andrew Mason -
Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.
-- Andrew Solomon -
In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.
-- Andrew Sullivan -
We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.
-- Angeles Arrien -
Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions, and history is a creative, normal, and healthy part of human experience.
-- Anthony Daniels
