Detachment Quotes
The warrior knows that he is free to choose his desires, and he makes these decisions with courage, detachment, and - sometimes - with just a touch of madness.
Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.
The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.
All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.
Particularly on social media, there is that level of detachment, some people feel like they can say whatever pops in their head .
Because I frequently encountered obstacles such as old, entrenched ideas, ongoing power struggles, or the lack of staff and money, I also learned to develop patience and detachment.
Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be.
A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.
Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.
The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.
The yoga of selfless giving is easy for anyone to practice. The key is detachment. The spirit is unattachment to results.
For the Christian mystics, detachment meant to leave attachment so that God could enter you and take over completely and you could climb the ladder to their heaven. Kind of crazy, but what the hell?
What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.
Some jobs required a certain level of detachment; a turning off of emotions in order to do the things that needed to be done.
Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too.
The property of the estate owners (pomeshchiks) doesn't belong to any particular detachment, but to the people as a whole. Let the people take what they want.
There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.
The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.
Detachment does not mean to neglect what Krishna gives you. Detachment means to do the needful as an offering to Krishna.
There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest.
I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more.
A lot of times in spiritual communities, detachment is considered to be an expression of being spiritually evolved when often, we have want and fear around being in relationship with each other.
Especially with iPhones, iPads and apps, there's just so much detachment that you're just flicking your fingers on a smooth surface to get the weather or whatever.
She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them.
People often associate complexity with deeper meaning, when often after precious time has been lost, it is realized that simplicity is the key to everything.
Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.
Like everything else, we know the futility of money only when we have more than enough of it.
Things can be added, but that doesn't mean that anything is missing.
Like petals what's beautiful is often delicate. Take care of the ones you love by not holding them too tightly
It sounds to me, dear, as if your satirist is a bit like a monk. They both take a rather dim view of the world, and both try to do something abou
The sensation that allows you to experience the physical reality, when detached from the physical body allows you to realize life beyond the physical reality.
The practice of Detachment encourages the positive aspects of your life to become dominant, while providing a clear path for the negative aspects to recede.
Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.
The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.
You must understand, owing to my loss of faith in life, I had gradually, inevitably embarked upon a small world of my creation.
If I don't see the reason of someone being my friend, chances are, we are just floating and I need a ship to set sail.
