They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

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

To be able to enjoy fully the many good things the world has to offer, we must be detached from them. To be detached does not mean to be indifferent or uninterested. It means to...

It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.

I feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had engaged in as a participant, but to which I had, nevertheless, grown inexplicably...

Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.

[…]one should act as if the things he cherished the most were already lost or broken.

Precisely this one, which I had intended to be published anonymously so that it could never build any reputation on the part of the author, did become a success…. Don’t aim at success – the...

Another aspect inviting contemplation is the fact that the affective tone of any feeling depends on the type of contact that has caused its arising. Once this conditioned nature of feelings is fully apprehended, detachment...

Technologies of the soul tend to be simple, bodily, slow and related to the heart as much as the mind. Everything around us tells us we should be mechanically sophisticated, electronic, quick, and informational in...