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Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space.

source: Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett, Arthur Golden, William White (2008). “Leaves of Grass: Vol. I-III: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.585, NYU Press

topic: Ocean, Space, Detached

quote attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone simone weil Quotes

When even the scrupulously detached BBC is exhorting us to talk to God, you know something is going on.

- Nick Hornby

topic: Knows, Detached

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

- Simone Weil

topic: Spiritual, Reality, Attachment, Detached

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

- Prem Rawat

source: Speech at Fernbank, London, February, 1972.

topic: Tides, Life Is, Difficult, Detached, Tidy

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

- Leslie Fiedler

source: "Leslie Fiedler Dies at 85; Provocative Literary Critic" by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, www.nytimes.com. January 31, 2003.

topic: Tolerance, Analysis, Lows, Detached

During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set. While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else. By doing this I sense instantly when something isn’t right. Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware of it in a natural way. I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’

- Akira Kurosawa

topic: Detached, Noh

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

- Ralph Fiennes

topic: Empathy, Devil, Alive, Detached, No Empathy

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

- Ida Tarbell

topic: Mind, Subjects, Detached

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.

- Marc Edwards

topic: Crowds, I Am Pretty, Locals, Detached

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

- Bono

source: "My wish: Three actions for Africa". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2005.

topic: Dream, Strong, Real, Pragmatism, Detached

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

- Joseph Conrad

source: Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.1118, e-artnow

topic: Love Is, Feelings, Literature, Detached, Resigning

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

- Hugh Leonard

topic: Grief, Difficult, Feels, Observing, Detached

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

- Val Kilmer

topic: Psychology, Serial Killer, Want, Detached

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

- Mao Zedong

source: Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.151, Lulu.com

topic: Art, Independent, Class, Literature And Art, Detached

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

- Bodhidharma

topic: Attachment, Essence, Practice, Detached

Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for your failure to act today, and instead say, 'I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.'

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Past, Vocabulary, Finding Yourself, Failure Is Not An Option, Detached

Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.

- Eve Ensler

source: Eve Ensler (2006). “Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World”, p.122, Villard

topic: People, Feelings, Stories, Detached

This might be a controversial thing to suggest, but in a quest to understand and relate to terrorism or school shootings, sometimes it feels like it's real, the appeal. As we've seen with ISIS, it's not always the devout who are getting into it; it's just people looking for a sense of belonging. The more they feel they're up against, the more intensity the cause has. It's an epic clash of cultures, and both sides are playing that up, but it's human beings disaffected, detached, and lonely.

- Andrew Bird

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Lonely, Real, School, Detached, School Shooting

Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

- Beverly Sills

topic: Love, Spiritual, Attachment, Detached

The Tao is infinite, eternal. Why is it eternal? It was never born; thus it can never die. Why is it infinite? It has no desires for itself; thus it is present for all beings. The Master stays behind; that is why she is ahead. She is detached from all things; that is why she is one with them. Because she has let go of herself, she is perfectly fulfilled.

- Laozi

topic: Letting Go, Desire, Tao, Detached, Tao Ching

When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.

- Rabindranath Tagore

source: Rabindranath Tagore (2006). “Sadhana the Realization of Life”, p.109, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

topic: Past, Self, Lust, Detached, True Vision

Now I understand why people do drugs, why people drink, and why people go crazy. As the success level goes up and up and up, the further detached I get from everybody else. Luckily, with my girlfriend, everything is gravy because I brought her into it. I brought her in and she's very hands on with my career.

- Gabriel Iglesias

topic: Girlfriend, Crazy, Hands, Detached

Heaven and Earth last for ever. Why do Heaven and Earth last for ever? They are unborn, so ever living. The sage stays behind, thus he is ahead. He is detached, thus at one with all. Through selfless action, he attains fulfillment.

- Laozi

source: Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

topic: Heaven, Taoism, Selfless, Detached

She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at some appointed, prearranged time they seemed to stop the flow of affection and being the expectations - as if, for a brief phrase, you were expected to absorb love (and get enough), and then, for a much longer and more serious phase, you were expected to fulfill certain obligations.

- John Irving

topic: Children, Expectations, Attention, Detached

I can't imagine how you can find the discipline to be emotionally detached reporting on a revolution, the winds of which are blowing right down the hallways of the publication you work for. That's like an orthopedic surgeon trying to perform arthroscopic surgery on their own knee. It's possible, but it's hard to see through all the pain.

- Paul Saffo

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: Pain, Wind, Discipline, Detached, Orthopedics

Detached forgiveness—there is a reduction in negative feelings toward the offender, but no reconciliation takes place. Limited forgiveness—there is a reduction in negative feelings toward the offender, and the relationship is partially restored, though there is a decrease in the emotional intensity of the relationship. Full forgiveness—there is a total cessation of negative feelings toward the offender, and the relationship is fully restored.

- R. T. Kendall

source: R.T. Kendall (2010). “Total Forgiveness: When Everything in You Wants to Hold a Grudge, Point a Finger, and Remember the Pain—God Wants You to Lay it All Aside”, p.10, Charisma Media

topic: Emotional, Feelings, Negative, Detached, Negative Feelings

You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to see it objectively. Like watching from the audience a play you already know by heart.

- George Rodger

topic: Heart, Play, Affinity, Detached

As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest increasingly diverge. It is almost as though we were being invaded by alien beings intent on colonizÂing our planet, reducing us to serfs, and then excluding as many of us as possible.

- David Korten

topic: People, Corporations, Gains, Detached, Serfs

The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.

- Antonin Artaud

topic: Art, Ideas, Leisure, Detached

You can get so well educated in America that your thoughts become detached from common sense. You can get so complicated in your thinking that the obvious isn't real to you anymore.

- Peggy Noonan