#detachment

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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

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.


Gabrielle Zevin


#detachment #heart #heartbreak #birth

Recollection of death also serves as a useful preparation for the time when one actually has to face death. As the concluding exercise among the body contemplations, a regular recollection of death can lead to the realization that death is fearful only to the extent to which one identifies with the body. With the aid of the body contemplations one can come to realize the true [impermanent] nature of the body and thereby overcome one's attachment to it. Being free from attachment to the body, one will be freed from any fear of physical death.


Anālayo


#death #detachment #meditation #sutra #death

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

The greatest asset to the human experience is the ability to navigate one’s emotions. By practicing the skill of detachment, one can successfully step back from the potentially destructive and tune into the purely positive


Gary Hopkins


#emotions #energy-healing #enlightenment #god #higher-self

Never invest so much in anyone romantically that you lose your head. The Buddha of casual sex, I remain detached at all costs.


Edward Vilga


#detachment #love #sex #love

Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts of alms, but if any good man or any good woman awakens the thought of Enlightenment and takes even only four lines from this Discourse, reciting, using, receiving, retaining and spreading them abroad and explaining them for the benefit of others, it will be far more meritorious. Now in what manner may he explain them to others? By detachment from appearances-abiding in Real Truth. -So I tell you- Thus shall you think of all this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream; A flash of lightening in a summer cloud, A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream. When Buddha finished this Discourse the venerable Subhuti, together with the bhikshus, bhikshunis, lay-brothers and sisters, and the whole realms of Gods, Men and Titans, were filled with joy by His teaching, and, taking it sincerely to heart they went their ways.


Gautama Buddha


#detachment #diamond-sutra #illusions #inspirational #life

...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it.


M.F.K. Fisher


#life #art

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

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.


Salvatore Quasimodo


#contains #detachment #dreams #finds #him