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"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.
My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.
In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.
Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them.
PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this and that.
Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
The more attached we are to a vision of the future, the less present we are to what is actually trying to emerge here and now.
All the harm, fear, and suffering in the world are caused by attachment to the self: Why should I hold on to this great demon?
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.
Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.
It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.
When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team
He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.
Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.
My mother's love was really not based on attachment. Her love was genuine love. To make me happy, not how I will make her happy.
Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.
When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment.
Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.
I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.
At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.
As you learn to accept that the body is transitory, as you watch it with love, but without attachment, the body will develop purity.
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
We shot many films in Delhi that turned out to be successful at the box office. So the attachment is definitely on the positive side.
The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.
Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.
Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment.
Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.
Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.
There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
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)
Attachments to older forms of worship may be comfortable, but they may contain elements of falsehood that make them unacceptable to God.
We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.
The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh.
To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your “Core Attachments,” means apologizing for your very existence.
All duality is a mind creation, all duality is created by the clinging and attached mind. When there is no attachment there is no duality.
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.
Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison"
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.
When there is time, there has to be suffering. Because in time there's desire and attachment and transition. This is the world of experience.
True power arises in knowing what you want, knowing what you don't want, expressing it clearly and lovingly without attachment to the outcome.
Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.
A large body of literature suggests that wellbeing is intimately linked to attachment - not only to other people, but also to the natural world.
Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death. Because this death releases you into real life. You have to die as a seed to live as a tree.
As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery.
Thousands and thousands of incarnations and nothing to show for it. You must choose whether to follow the path of love or the path of attachment.