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As you get older, you realize that lasting happiness does not come from more possessions, it comes from less unhealthy attachments.

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

Good judgement is the product of a calm and curious mind, reasoning without motivation and attachment.

As you mature, you realize that some relationships are based purely on an attachment to the past – a shared history. But, they hold no real value in the now. Things are no longer the same, and that’s OK. You can move on with love and still enjoy the memories you created together.

Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

All conflict comes from attachment.

You don’t give up the intention, and you don’t give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.

Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is.

Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.

The greatest achievement is selflessness.The greatest worth is self-mastery.The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.The greatest precept is continual awareness.The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.The greatest generosity is non-attachment.The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.The greatest patience is humility.The greatest effort is not concerned with results.The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.

the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.

Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing.

It’s not the appearance that binds you, it’s the attachment to the appearance that binds you.

Lust, Greed, Anger, Attachment – These are all paths to hell.

This world is all attachment. Yet you get worried because you are attached.

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.

Mindfulness is an ancient meditation mode in which we let go of our fears, our attachments to control and being right, our expectations and entitlements, and our judgments of others. Instead of these popular strategies, we learn to simply stay present opening in the moment – with nothing in the way – so we can experience life as it occurs.

What is… disturbing to me is that many of these pro-Israeli lawmakers sit on the House International Relations Committee despite the obvious conflict of interest that their emotional attachments to Israel cause… The Israeli occupation of all territories must end, including Congress.

Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of attachment, there are beings to gratify that love. If we thirst for life and love eternal, it is likely that there are an eternal life and an eternal love to satisfy that craving.

Live in Joy, In love, Even among those who hate. Live in joy, In health, Even among the afflicted. Live in joy, In peace, Even among the troubled. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.

If it isn’t the sheriff, it’s the finance company; I’ve got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite yourlanguid spleen,An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or anot-too-French French bean!

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

When you have children, you realize that at the end it’s all about passing on, about handing down. The process of letting go, not attachment, but appreciating the beauty and value in the change, the transformation.

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

Since the attachment to the cult of Islam is psychological, the solution must also be psychological. We have all the logical proof that Islam is false. But logic has its limitation. Brainwashed people dismiss logic and pride themselves in their blind faith. Psychological warfare is extremely powerful. The Muslim bravado must be destroyed by humiliations and ridicule.

Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments – father, mother, wife, children – everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the principles and imbibe the spirit of our government; and to admit of a probability at least, of their feeling a real interest in our affairs.

While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.

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

(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.