[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.

In words which can still bring tears to the eyes, St. Augustine describes the desolation into which the death of his friend Nebridius plunged him. Then he draws a moral. This is what comes, he...

I thought of Bobby, of the last look he had given me, and at that moment I understood one of the differences between man and cat: man knows he’s going to die, so he can...

You will attach to me as long as I meet your needs.

As spiritual searchers we need to become freer and freer of the attachment to our own smallness in which we get occupied with me-me-me. Pondering on large ideas or standing in front of things which...

All the created beings are contaminated by emotional attachment; they die and are reborn, only to die over and over again.

He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.

True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.

The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.

My trouble is that I think there is a track that things should stay on. I’m hooked to a belief that life should go a certain way. I develop an attachment to Plan A and...

better times” it sets us free from the illusion that somehow things should be different.

Research on organised abuse emphasises the diversity of organised abuse cases, and the ways in which serious forms of child maltreatment cluster in the lives of children subject to organised victimisation (eg Bibby 1996b, Itziti...

Why are…poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose; the rich have more to lose and they are more attached to their...

The capacity to form attachments on equal terms is considered evidence of emotional maturity. It is the absence of this capacity which is pathological. Whether there may be other criteria of emotional maturity, like the...

When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.

enough” the parent would CHOOSE to be available.

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

From the dear comes grief; From the dear comes fear.If you’re freed from the dear You’ll have no grief, let alone fear.

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance – a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering...

Let me lose everything on earth and the world beyond, but let me not lose what I’m craving for, let it be that i died on the way than retreating from getting it.

Grief is a good thing. It’s the way we get through the transitions of life.

Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it’s not a place on the map at all, but just a story...

Desire also creates a sense of attachment in the mind. Not only are we attached to our way of thinking and of seeing the world, but we become over-attached to the people or things we...