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Detachment is the ultimate pleasure.
The essence of the Way is detachment.
Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
Just a little detachment from the ego is needed.
Our detachments move us toward freedom and death.
How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?
Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.
She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.
One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.
Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment!
Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.
Wandering, (is) considered as a state of detachment form every given point in space.
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous.
I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.
There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.
...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it.
detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.
The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.
I tore my right shoulder to pieces - three external tears, a labrum tear, and a detachment of the bicep tendon.
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.
Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.
There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.
There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest.
If you don't do yoga, it doesn't mean that you can't have a sense of detachment, which means not attaching yourself to your thoughts or your emotions.
Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.
What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.
The property of the estate owners (pomeshchiks) doesn't belong to any particular detachment, but to the people as a whole. Let the people take what they want.
Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.
To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.
Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too.
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.
Is detachment the answer to freedom? No, because detachment is negative - it is to be without. The answer must be positive - I must replace what I have with something better.
Narcissism is not about self love. It's a clinical trait that belies a deep sense of emptiness, low self-esteem, emotional detachment, self-loathing, extreme problems with intimacy.
Because I frequently encountered obstacles such as old, entrenched ideas, ongoing power struggles, or the lack of staff and money, I also learned to develop patience and detachment.
I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.
The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement.
All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.
In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.
What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure.
Is that bad? Detachment in the sense that I can't be going to every party, showing my face, talking to the press and telling them what I am wearing to the bathroom or where I eat. I would rather see a purpose to that.
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
I think you could argue that President Obama could have watched a little cable news... I do think that there is value in understanding where the conversation is and having a little less detachment where the popular conversation is.