#attachment

While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did. ↗

— Bill Murray

#alive #already #always #attachment #big

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#attachment #done #end #expectation #fear

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

— Beverly Sills

#attachment #else #inordinate #just #love

In between every action and reaction, there is a space. Usually the space is extremely small because we react so quickly, but take notice of that space and expand it. Be aware in that space that you have a choice to make. You can choose how to respond, and choose wisely, because the next step you take will teach your child how to handle anger and could either strengthen or damage your relationship. ↗

— Rebecca Eanes

#children #emotional-regulation #emotions #gentle-parenting #parenting

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

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

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature. ↗

— William Bartram

#affections #ardent #attachment #faithful #filial

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