He who does not mortify his palate will neither know how to mortify his flesh.

Samsaric pleasures are like salt water, the more we indulge, the more we crave.

Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.

If you expect miracles in your life, then release any attachment to the outcome.

Freedom is to be free of attachments, and the main attachment is to the 'I'-self.

If I'm judging the attachment, myself, or another person, then I create separation.

Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality.

My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding.

Sometimes we find that we like our thoughts so much that we don't want to let them go.

Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.

When I started my spiritual journey, I realized I had to cut away from all attachment.

Love is the language of the soul when it is not colored by emotion, ego, or attachment.

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have.

Non-attachment is about not being attached to anything - including non-attachment itself.

The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.

If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation.

People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

Cities - I'm attracted to them, and I have a special attachment to New York...it's my place.

Lose everything, even the attachment to holiness, so that you aim only at one thing: to love

Be as eager to break your own will as the thirsty stag is to drink of the refreshing waters.

Being attached is what prevents us from seeing, it is what clouds this miraculous awareness.

As your love grows, you will find that your attachment to this world will begin to fall away.

The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.

I scourge both flesh and spirit because I know that I have offended in both flesh and spirit.

It's not the appearance that binds you, it's the attachment to the appearance that binds you.

When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.

Your non attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the divine is your beauty.

The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.

Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective.

Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing.

Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'.

Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment

There's healthy attachment, like with a mother and child. It's biologically part of our survival.

I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

Attachments stir the soul, ignite the emotions. Guard what moves you, reserving that for the truth.

To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.

How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?

No screenplay is possible, unless you get some attachment from somebody who's going to get it made.

Liberals retain a totemic attachment to the Freudian idea that traumatic toilet training is destiny.

If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.

In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it.

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

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

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

Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.

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