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The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.
I grew up with an Apple 2E - I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine - and I loved doodling.
You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery.
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?
The emotional attachment you get with a client or the music fan allows you access to do a lot of things.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.
In Sadhana there will be internal talk with God. You will give up all attachments and attach only to God.
It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring
Going to a gym or playing a sport should not be mechanical. There should be an emotional attachment to it.
When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
Love is not a sentimental attachment to a human being; love is a mode of conduct that comes from the heart.
Japanese people can feel some attachment in what they are making, whether it is a car or a TV or a computer.
There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.
It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service.
Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.
There are certain women who are sexually driven and they can compartmentalize it from an emotional attachment.
For the most part, for me and my friends, there's always an emotional attachment that clouds women's judgment.
The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.
You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.
Having grown up under Chinese rule, I don't have any memory of colonial Hong Kong or feel any attachment to it.
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.
My attachment to my wedding ring is a powerful symbol of the infinite love that I have for my wife and children.
Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.
This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
A man could be in a throne and have no attachment at all; another one could be in rags and have many attachments.
Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
With Attachments, my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.
Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.
In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.
love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have.
Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it.
Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.
The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.
Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities
You have to have some level of attachment, you can still have passion and believe but it has to be softened somewhat.
Most people suffer in love because of attachment. Attachment means we're interested in a net return on our investment.
There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.
It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.
Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.
My brands are an extension of me. They're close to me. It's not like running GM, where there's no emotional attachment.
It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.
I have a possessive female spirit. I was also told I have a demonic attachment. They make me sick. They make me agitated.
To bed, to bed; sleep kill those pretty eyes, And give as soft attachment to thy senses, As infants empty of all thought.
According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent.