All Quotes By Tag: Attachment
“Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.”
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“He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light.”
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“The whole world is indeed trapped by misery. What is the misery about? Due to ignorance of one’s own Real Self (agnanta). Due to ignorance of one’s own Real Self (agnanta), attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh) keeps on occuring, which leads to this misery. Only through Gnan [Knowledge of the Real Self] can one prevail in a misery-free state. There is no other solution at all.”
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“Despite knowing and seeing through the senses, if one remains free from attachment-abhorrence, it is called knowledge beyond the senses (atindriya-gnan). But if one has attachment-abhorrence, then one is seeing and knowing through the knowledge of the senses (indriya-gnan).”
“Yes, a deep lesson from the postage stamp. It attaches itself to a moveable material, the envelope and gets going. A good relationship keeps you going forward; a bad one keeps you static. Attach yourself to someone who is also going forward and you will also get there.”
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“She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance – a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
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“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)”
“Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex-toy.”
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“It’s harder to pick and choose when you’re dead. It’s like a photograph, you know. It doesn’t matter as much.”
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“A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.”
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“True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.”
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“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
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“Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it’s not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you’ve been to. I’m not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don’t have to be like anyone else. I’m walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.”
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“Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.”
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