#detach

Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into the wilderness to find God; of course they took God with them, and the silence and detachment enabled them to hear the still, small voice of their own souls, as one hears the ticking of his own watch in the stillness of the night. ↗

— John Burroughs

#god #nature #religion #solitude #spirituality

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

— Simone Weil

#attained #detached #great #illusions #only

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too. ↗

— Simone Weil

#endured #hatred #lying #pain #present

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#arouses #aspirations #because #completely #detach

Prosperity cannot be experienced by living detached from Nature. Everything else is only a gradation of materialistic, earthly ambitions. We came from the stars and there lies the path to our substantive evolution. ↗

— Grigoris Deoudis

#detached #evolution #living #materialistic #nature

The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings. ↗

— Victor Garber

#aspect #detachment #distance #feelings #himself

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult. ↗

— Prem Rawat

#difficult #down #float #go #life

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#before #caught #detached #get #jim

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#idolatry #idols #love-disappointment #love

All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing. ↗

— David Baldacci

#change #civilization #detachment #journalism #mankind