"Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment. Why should you have any duty? Resign everything unto God."
- Swami Vivekanandaspiritual , Swami Vivekananda , attachment , duty , spontaneous , surrender-to-god
28 Attachment Quotes Inspirational - Page 1
"Attached to nothing, connected to Everything."
- Anonymousspiritual , Anonymous , attachment , connection , detachment , neti-neti
"What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent, when they are not."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
"You never identify yourself with the shadow cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body, either."
- Adi Shankaracharyaspiritual , Adi Shankaracharya , attachment , detachment , ego , neti-neti , self-inquiry , who-am-i
"The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening."
- Adi Shankaracharyaspiritual , Adi Shankaracharya , attachment , awakening , dream-sleep , illusion
"Your urge to control life controls you"
- Moojiinspiring , Mooji , attachment , detachment , letting-go , life , overthinking
"Expectation feeds frustration. It is an unhealthy attachment to people, things, and outcomes we wish we could control; but don't."
- Steve Maraboliinspiring , Steve Maraboli , attachment , expectations , frustrated , stress
"There is the lotus leaf in the water; the water cannot touch and adhere to it; so will you be in the world. This is called Vairagya, dispassion or non-attachment."
- Swami Vivekananda
"Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it."
- Khalil Gibraninspiring , Khalil Gibran , anxiety , attachment , future , overthinking , stress
"It is not life that causes suffering, but our expectation that life should be the way we want."
- Kodo Sawakispiritual , Kodo Sawaki , attachment , expectations , suffering
"The problem is not enjoyment; the problem is attachment."
- Tilopaspiritual , Tilopa , attachment , enjoy , pleasure
"As long as one is mesmerized by the tree, the root cannot be understood."
- Wu Hsinspiritual , Wu Hsin , absolute-reality , advaita-vedanta , attachment , self-inquiry , self-realization
"Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?"
- Rumispiritual , Rumi , attachment , detachment , illusion , treasure , within-yourself
"If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time."
- Edith Whartoninspiring , Edith Wharton , attachment , good-time , happy , let-it-be , relax
"Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are."
- Allan Lokos from 'Pocket Peace: Effective Practises for Enlightened Living'
spiritual , Allan Lokos , acceptance , attachment , hurt , suffering
"Do not attach yourself to what your body is going through. Keep your mind above it, keep your head in heaven and your feet on the ground."
- Robert Adamsspiritual , Robert Adams , attachment , be-the-witness , body , broader-perspective , detachment , empty-mind , neti-neti
"If the mind is attached to any experience, this is bondage. When the mind is detached from all experience, this is liberation."
- Ashtavakra Gita from 'The Perennial Way' translated by Bart Marshall
spiritual , Ashtavakra Gita , attachment , detachment , empty-mind , liberation , neti-neti , non-duality
"Fixating on a specific outcome that we think we want causes us to struggle and suffer as we attempt to force it. We don’t let ourselves feel happy, satisfied, or relaxed until we can check that goal off the list."
- Gabrielle Bernsteinlaw-of-attraction , spiritual , Gabrielle Bernstein , attachment , conditions , desires , ego , introspection
"Let go your attachment to the unreal and the real will swiftly and smoothly step into its own."
- Nisargadatta Maharajspiritual , Nisargadatta Maharaj , attachment , awakening , detachment , illusion , neti-neti , reality
"What is your life about anyway? Nothing but a struggle to be someone. Nothing but a running from your own silence."
- Rumispiritual , Rumi , attachment , awakening , ego , illusion , maya , self-image , silence
"We are completely unaware of our true nature because we constantly identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts, thus losing sight of our unchanging centre which is pure consciousness."
- Jean Kleinspiritual , Jean Klein , attachment , body , consciousness , ego , inner-being , neti-neti , self-realization , who-am-i , who-you-are
"Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realisation that you are the source and heart of all will dawn upon you. With this will come great love which is not choice or predilection, nor attachment, but a power which makes all things love-worthy and lovable."
- Nisargadatta Maharajspiritual , Nisargadatta Maharaj , attachment , awakening , detachment , divine , enlightenment , neti-neti , self-realization , source-energy , unconditional-love , who-you-are
"How can you tell if you're making progress? Simply by the way you feel. If the world is getting to you and you feel there's something in this world that you hate or you love, something in this world that upsets you or makes you happy, then you know you're not making progress, or not too much progress. True happiness, peace, love, is your very nature. There is nothing in this outside world that can give it to you."
- Robert Adamsspiritual , Robert Adams , attachment , detachment , emotional-guidance-system , feel-good , feelings , happiness , inner-being , non-duality , peace , self-realization , who-you-are , within-yourself
"In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself."
- Deepak Choprainspiring , spiritual , Deepak Chopra , attachment , detachment , letting-go , past , self , who-you-are
"If we give up our attachment to this little universe of the senses or of the mind, we shall be free immediately."
- Swami Vivekanandaspiritual , Swami Vivekananda , attachment , detachment , empty-mind , freedom , letting-go , liberation , mind , non-duality
"You do not have to give up anything really. You simply have to put everything in the right perspective. You can work, you can play, you can go on vacation, you can do anything you like, but you'll always be aware of the truth of your being, that's all. Do not think when someone attains liberation they have to go and live in a cave and forget about the world. On the contrary, you're in the world but not of the world. You see through appearances and you become happy."
- Robert Adamsspiritual , Robert Adams , attachment , awakening , being , bliss , detachment , happiness , happy , illusion , inner-being , liberation , life , materialism , perspective , play , self-realization , truth , work
"The idea of being a person, an ego, is nothing other than an image held together by memory."
- Jean Kleinspiritual , Jean Klein , advaita-vedanta , attachment , being , body , ego , memories , non-duality , non-physical , reality , self , who-you-are
"We habitually attribute a cause to joy, we turn joy into an object because memory links the two together, but in reality they are of two entirely different natures."
- Jean Kleinspiritual , Jean Klein , attachment , bliss , detachment , happiness , independence , joy , materialism , reality