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My goal is not to upset the apple cart, but to make it more accessible. — Tom Althouse

Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman. — Thomas Malthus

Once an opinion is formed, there will be attachment-abhorrence. A person without opinion is also without attachment-abhorrence. — Dada Bhagwan

If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation. — Swami Vivekananda

The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening. — Adi Shankara

I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive. — Albert Camus

PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this and that. — Morihei Ueshiba

It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment. — Swami Vivekananda

Why is it that even when you're trying your hardest not to get attached, something still sneaks up on you? — Claire Cook

Staying back without any attachment, emotional bonding, would be more devastating than moving out — Kalpa Das

Necessity is very often the mother of romance. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

We as human beings lower our vibration everytime we react with the emotional attachment of what is only suppose to be a lesson through life. — Nikki Rowe

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave. — Swami Vivekananda

Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all. — Asa Don Brown

Attachment is not love. Where there is attachment there is exploitation. — Rajneesh

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

When attachment does not occur when someone gives flowers and no abhorrence occurs when someone throws stones; that is considered equanimity. — Dada Bhagwan

All duality is a mind creation, all duality is created by the clinging and attached mind. When there is no attachment there is no duality. — Rajneesh

Attachment to the external always suffocates inner peace. — Bryant McGill

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire. — Edgar Allan Poe

I have an emotional attachment with Katihar. — Tariq Anwar

Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions. — Hanna Rosin

There is a correlation between the physical and spiritual worlds but only attachment to the physical world causes emotional suffering. — Daniel Marques

If you expect miracles in your life, then release any attachment to the outcome. — Joe Vitale

To lose awareness of what is helpful or harmful in the worldly life is moh (Illusory vision & attachment). — Dada Bhagwan

Frankly, I'm guessing that before getting to my house today, Shoshanna had thought the Hoover Dam was some kind of vacuum cleaner attachment. — Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class. — Ian Schrager

She had seen too much of the world, to expect sudden or disinterested attachment anywhere, — Jane Austen

Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome. — Gary Zukav

When two persons are too close, they fall apart. — Michael Bassey Johnson

It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us. - Tilopa — Lama Surya Das

The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results. — Eknath Easwaran

Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment. — George Washington

It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service. — David Livingstone

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering. — Benjamin Hoff

Attachment is the source of pain, but detachment is the source of joy. — Debasish Mridha

I'm someone who had a deep emotional attachment to 'Starsky and Hutch.' — William J. Clinton

Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire. — Paramahansa Yogananda

You must choose between your attachments and happiness. — Adyashanti

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment. — Ilka Chase

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again. — Meister Eckhart

Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself. — Albert Ellis

Play the game of life as if you have nothing to lose, no attachment. — Jay Woodman

Attachment is the source of all suffering. — Gautama Buddha

Be as eager to break your own will as the thirsty stag is to drink of the refreshing waters. — Paul Of The Cross

Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment — Goswami Kriyananda

Then you're going to take off your suit and show me just how much you missed your phone cord."
"And the attachment."
"And the attachment. — Sylvain Reynard

The problem with love is attachment; love makes you dependent. Unattached love - you love for the hell of it. — Frederick Lenz

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory. — Theodore Bikel

You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery. — Rajneesh

Most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent. — Dalai Lama XIV

Home's where you go when you run out of homes. — John Le Carre

Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life. — Lionel Shriver

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. — James Baldwin

Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains. — S. N. Goenka

an attachment to his culture is, for the European, the beginning of the slippery slope. — Theodore Dalrymple

Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'. — Rajneesh

Then he sees that this attachment is all delusion. — Swami Vivekananda

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

Hadn't another wise man, the Buddha himself, warned about the evils of attachment? — Manil Suri

It was my letting go that gave me a better hold. — Chris Matakas

This I say is the present moment; this is the first day of the summer holidays. This is part of the emerging monster to whom we are attached. — Virginia Woolf

And the maximum number extracted. You know what your bosses say about attachment, littl'un. Don't get too attached to me. — Karen Traviss

If you simply get detach from yourself, it gets easier for you to see, how you perceive life. — Roshan Sharma

Try not to seek after the true
Only cease to cherish opinions. (172) — Edward Conze

He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses. — Alphonsus Liguori

Attachment comes only where we expect a return. — Swami Vivekananda

Susan, who has an avoidant attachment style, ... sees need as a weakness and looks down on people who become dependent on their partner, — Amir Levine

Lose everything, even the attachment to holiness, so that you aim only at one thing: to love — Chiara Lubich

Until ignorance, of one's own Self (the Soul), is removed, illusory attachment (moha) will not go away. — Dada Bhagwan

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much. — Neil Gaiman

I'm learning more and more that love plus attachment equals pain. — Lisa Bonet

We have lived too closely, been through too much. I will not leave you. I cannot, any more than I can leave myself. — Sebastian Faulks

Physical pleasures are not associated with attachment-abhorrence; the belief in an opinion itself is attachment-abhorrence. — Dada Bhagwan

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached. — Simone Weil

The one to whom nothing was refused, whose tears were always wiped away by an anxious mother, will not abide being offended.
- De Ira 2.21.6 — Seneca.

What cannot be communicated to the [m]other cannot be communicated to the self. — John Bowlby

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away. — Sri Aurobindo

Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free. — Ram Dass

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do? — Bret Easton Ellis

Being attached is what prevents us from seeing, it is what clouds this miraculous awareness. — Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery. — Swami Vivekananda

I am more emotionally attached to book characters than actual people in my life. — Unknownimous

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. — Thomas Jefferson

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations? — Dorothy Salisbury Davis

My true friends always gave me this supreme proof of attachment: a spontaneous aversion to the men I loved. — Colette

She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive. — Marcel Proust

Attachment is a unifying principle that reaches from the biological depths of our being to its furthest spiritual reaches. — Jeremy Holmes

If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments — Yasmin Mogahed

It's sad to see how many relationships start as just a distraction from boredom, a cover up so they don't have to ever deal with the true pain below — Evan Sutter

It's not the appearance that binds you, it's the attachment to the appearance that binds you. — Tilopa

Rejection only made the attachment stronger. I realized that the impossibility of connection was a driving force behind his desire. — Deirdre Madden

Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier. — Sharon Salzberg

Throughout history, the most brutal cultures have always been distinguished by maternal-infant separation. — Antonella Gambotto-Burke

people who love their addictions have an attachment to something with no life force. — Galen Stoller

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle. — Jane Austen

For instance, the near enemy of love is attachment. It masquerades as love, it feels like love, but it is essentially different. — Jack Kornfield

Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment. — Swami Vivekananda

Love is the language of the soul when it is not colored by emotion, ego, or attachment. — Alan Finger

You will only see who you are and thus be who you are as you surrender your attachment to all other identities, — Ted Dekker