Attachment. A secure attachment is the ability to bond; to develop a secure and safe base; an unbreakable or perceivable inability to shatter to bond between primary parental caregiver(s) and child; a quest for familiarity;...

Secure attachment has been linked to a child’s ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.

My affection for you is not my problem.

Dare to live by letting go.

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn’t that what people do?

Strangers were a fairytale full of possibilities not yet corrupted by reality while caregivers were the reality – and everything that couldn’t be counted upon.

Teaching English is (as professorial jobs go) unusually labor-intensive and draining. To do it well, you have to spend a lot of time coaching students individually on their writing and thinking. Strangely enough, I still...

To empty the heart does not mean to not love. On the contrary, true love, as God intented it, is purest when it is not based on a false attachment. The process of first emptying...

Practice giving things away, not just things you don’t care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size of a gift, it is its quality and the amount of mental attachment...

The greatest challenge of parenting is in the inner work it requires: the strength and confidence in believing that we are not in control of, but the answer for our children.

That is to say, attachments to signs of accomplishment (drod rtags) and circumstantial effects are precisely what are called Negative Forces [demons].

An attachment grew up. What is an attachment? It is the most difficult of all the human interrelationships to explain, because it is the vaguest, the most impalpable. It has all the good points of...

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

Let’s create a new memory,where our futures will fall back for strength

Theirs was a tug-of-war and neither could let go. Both felt the burn and still wouldn’t let go. Some might call it a game for neither could admit defeat.

Love should not cause suffocation and death if it is truly love. Don’t bundle someone into an uncomfortable cage just because you want to ensure their safety in your life. The bird knows where it...

Softly and kindly remind yourself, ”I cannot own anything.” It is a valuable thought to keep in mind as you struggle to improve your financial picture, worry about investments, and plan how to acquire more...

My mother can’t have been magic, or she wouldn’t have died”, said Riddle

You can find hope in despair. Dwell on positive thoughts.

I have an emotional attachment with Katihar.

Mind control is built in lies and manipulation of attachment needs.Valerie Sinason, from the Forward of the book

At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual’s sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy flow (emotional states) and a verbal focus on the information-processing...

[Let] go of your attachments: your attachment to being right, to having total control, or to living forever. This process of letting go is integral to the process of becoming whole.

If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won’t want to let it in.

Non-possession” does not mean having nothing. It does not mean to live as a penniless beggar. Rather than meaning having nothing, it is the idea of not possessing what we do not need. The more...

The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.

Women are gifts, open them with care, judge them with leniecy, test and weigh their depths, then accept those with true worth and value.

Will this last forever?

The possessions themselves were not the problem, it was my relationship with possessing.

un-loved” when (from his perspective) he has dedicated his life to their welfare?Some of these men will express their lack of vitality and emotional engagement though endless service. They are hyperaware of the moods, needs...

Friendship is not a remedy for loneliness. Loneliness is part of our experience, and if we are looking for relief from loneliness in friendship, we are only going to frustrate the friendship. Friendship, camaraderie, intimacy,...

Attachment to the external always suffocates inner peace.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

By developing a contaminated, stigmatized identity, the child victim takes the evil of the abuser into herself and thereby preserves her primary attachments to her parents. Because the inner sense of badness preserves a relationship,...

It was if we all sensed we’d be gone someday soon in a sudden instant–often it happened in the middle of the night–and didn’t want to get involved. Or else it was that none of...

[On marriage and permanent attachment:]Well, well — the prizes all go to the women who ‘play their cards well’ — but if they can only be won in that way, I would rather lose the...

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

Sticking to one person for a lifetime is not a waste of time or lack of better ones, it means you’ve found your place of eternity.

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

ATTACHMENT IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL!” Myth: ‘Money is the root of all evil.’ It’s just a wrong interpretation of a wise ancient message. TRUTH: ‘LUST(GREED) OF MONEY(ANYTHING) IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL.’...

It was my letting go that gave me a better hold.

victimization” by the people to whom we are giving. We may be completely unaware of our expectations of those we assist, and our own anger and resentment may catch us off guard. This is why...

It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)

At the end, we will arrive where we started.

Attachment parenting, Sears writes, “immunizes children against many of the social and emotional diseases which plague our society,” producing children who are “compassionate,” “caring,” “admirable,” “affectionate,” “confident,” and “accomplished” (“faster than a speeding bullet,” “more...

I smiled and looked at her- there she was with such a genuine grin and twinkle in her eyes. I kissed my mother on her forehead and took a long look in to her hazel...

Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t ‘should’ve’ done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!

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Our young don’t play outside anymore; they’ve lost their innocence too early in their lives. We walk around the house ignoring one another, we see each other as separate, we abuse the earth; we kill...

Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.