#attachment

Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith. . . . Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#faith

There are many different ways of approaching parenting as there are cultures. However, in non-industrialized cultures, the similarities are also striking. Extended nursing, co-sleeping, carrying the baby in close physical contact, responding promptly to cries or distress, never leaving a baby alone, are all virtually universal in traditional societies that have not become overly "westernized". ↗

— Ingrid Bauer

#parenting #nature

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) ↗

— Ravi Ravindra

#non-attachment #spiritual-wisdom #spirituality #study #wisdom

[Let] go of your attachments: your attachment to being right, to having total control, or to living forever. This process of letting go is integral to the process of becoming whole. ↗

— Judith Hanson Lasater

#peace #yoga #yoga

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. ↗

— George Washington

#actions #attachment #convince #criterion #every

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

— Simone Weil

#attained #detached #great #illusions #only

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#egotism #enlarged #fellow #fellow men #his

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual. ↗

— Andrew Sullivan

#compatible #completely #freedom #freely #homosexual

Love without attachment is light. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

#light #love #without

The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#control #life #miserable #motivational #people