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Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being. -- Laozi
Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you. Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires. Love imposes no demands. Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole." Love expands beyond the limits of two people. Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people. -- Deepak Chopra
Attachment is the main thing that is blocking your path towards enlightenment. -- Garchen Rinpoche
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. -- George Eliot
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. -- Virginia Woolf
Attachment leads to suffering. -- Gautama Buddha
Love without attachment is light. -- Norman O. Brown
Attachment is the strongest block to realization. -- Neem Karoli Baba
Attachment is the source of all suffering. -- Gautama Buddha
Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style. -- Mayim Bialik
Attachment comes only where we expect a return. -- Swami Vivekananda
Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality. -- Rajneesh
Lust, Greed, Anger, Attachment - These are all paths to hell. -- Neem Karoli Baba
Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path. -- Nhat Hanh
Attachment is not love. Where there is attachment there is exploitation. -- Rajneesh
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward... -- Ramakrishna
Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego. -- Rajneesh
Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached. -- Simone Weil
Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'. -- Rajneesh
Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. -- Beverly Sills
To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness. -- Laozi
Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment -- Goswami Kriyananda
Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective. -- Dalai Lama
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. -- Simone Weil
A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done. -- Ram Dass
You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery. -- Rajneesh
Most people suffer in love because of attachment. Attachment means we're interested in a net return on our investment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured. -- Thomas Clarkson
Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby. -- Helen Fisher
When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's way. -- Dan Millman
Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions. -- Hanna Rosin
We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory. -- Theodore Bikel
Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured. -- Thomas E. Mann
Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear. -- Wayne Dyer
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
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature. -- William Bartram
Attachment has to do with suffering, so it's really close to Buddhism, because Buddhism wants to relieve you from suffering; you're supposed to escape from suffering. -- Gerald Stern
Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same. -- A. G. Mohan
What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life. -- Rob Reiner
Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke. -- Marianne Williamson
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Marston
Attachment parenting is this theory that if you wear your baby around and you sleep with your baby and you breast-feed for a long time, the baby will be more attached to you. -- Sarah Ruhl
How do you let go of attachment to things? Donâ??t even try. Itâ??s impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them. -- Eckhart Tolle
Attachment to a baby is a long-term process, not a single, magical moment. The opportunity for bonding at birth may be compared to falling in love - staying in love takes longer and demands more work. -- T. Berry Brazelton
I didn't spend a whole lot of time here, but I had the seven best years of my career in this city and having an attachment here 20-some odd years later is pretty special to me. -- Paul Coffey
Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is. Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose -- George Lucas
Attachment is the root cause of all misery - and our mind is such that it starts clinging to each and everything. It starts becoming identified, attached, it does not know how to keep a distance; hence the misery. -- Rajneesh
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. -- Bede Griffiths
There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... . -- T. S. Eliot
Attachment is the food for the mind to continue. Non-attached witnessing is the way to stop it without any effort to stop it. And when you start enjoying those blissful moments, your capacity to retain them for longer periods arises. -- Rajneesh
Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma. -- Mahavira
Attachment to the past and fears concerning the future not only govern the way you select the things you own but also represent the criteria by which you make choices in every aspect of your life, including your relationships with people and your job. -- Marie Kondo
Attachment strangles freedom and clarity and makes us a puppet to our desires and cravings; attachment is the root of suffering, a root that if left unattended grows into a tree which drops the fruits of anger, greed, envy, dispersion, competitiveness, ego and pain -- Evan Sutter
When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it seeks control and it fear loss. Ask your heart if attachment has replaced love. If we speak to our heart, it will always tell us the truth. -- Jack Kornfield
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections. -- Samuel Adams
As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery. We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger and attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion, a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness. -- Dalai Lama
They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That's why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment. -- Yasmin Mogahed
My brands are an extension of me. They're close to me. It's not like running GM, where there's no emotional attachment. -- Jay-Z
When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment. -- Helen Fisher
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day. -- Ramakrishna
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. -- George Washington
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by. -- Mahmoud Darwish
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. -- Erich Fromm
If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. -- Germaine Greer
Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome. -- Deepak Chopra
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy. -- Chanakya
The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices. -- Geoff Mulgan
I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him. -- George Muller
I don't really get nervous for auditions, because I just see them as mini acting classes. There's no need to have an attachment to the outcome because it's out of your hands after that. -- Isabel Lucas
Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment. -- Caroline Knapp
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end. -- Ramakrishna
Soul development depends on attachment and bonding. Every brain and body is genetically wired to develop itself, but the full soul development of brain and body depends on each child receiving the care of between two and five completely bonded caregivers. -- Michael Gurian
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men. -- George Ripley
Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.' -- Bharati Mukherjee
Branding is not merely about differentiating products; it is about striking emotional chords with consumers. It is about cultivating identity, attachment, and trust to inspire customer loyalty. Chinese brands score low on attributes such as 'sophisticated,' 'desirable,' 'innovative,' 'friendly,' and 'trustworthy.' -- Nirmalya Kumar
If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love. -- Alphonsus Liguori
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. -- Bill Murray
Digital intimacy ruins the appetite for the real thing. So, when kids are gaming or even when spouses are gaming, they lose their appetite for genuine intimacy. Kids lose their appetite for getting their intimacy needs, their hunger for significance and attachment, with the family, and it erodes the relationship between them and their parents. -- Gordon Neufeld
I had an attachment disorder. -- Dave Pelzer
All conflict comes from attachment. -- Anthony de Mello
The root of suffering is attachment -- Gautama Buddha
It is your attachment that creates hell. -- Rajneesh
All misery and pain come from attachment. -- Swami Vivekananda
I have an emotional attachment with Katihar. -- Tariq Anwar
Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer mind. -- Swami Vivekananda
Love is an attachment which develops through human interaction. -- Auliq Ice
All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire. -- Edgar Allan Poe
To avoid the pain of loss, give up attachment. -- Debasish Mridha
Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform. -- Radhanath Swami
Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class. -- Ian Schrager
We forgive when we give up attachment to our wounds. -- Lewis Hyde
Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment. -- Swami Vivekananda
I'm learning more and more that love plus attachment equals pain. -- Lisa Bonet
Let not your love become attachment, nor your hate become destruction. -- Umar
Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Money is not a problem, but unintelligent attachment to it is. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain. -- Guru Nanak
That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are. -- Tara Brach
Non-attachment is about not being attached to anything - including non-attachment itself. -- Peter Merry
The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea. -- Virginia Woolf
I'm someone who had a deep emotional attachment to 'Starsky and Hutch.' -- William J. Clinton
Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms. -- Gautama Buddha
This world is all attachment. Yet you get worried because you are attached. -- Neem Karoli Baba
A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils -- George Washington
Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson
Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains. -- S. N. Goenka
If I'm judging the attachment, myself, or another person, then I create separation. -- Tara Brach
My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding. -- Rajneesh
Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be,Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly;- 153 - -- Munindra Misra
Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle. -- Jane Austen
I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters. -- George R. R. Martin
With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire. -- Sharon Salzberg
If you expect miracles in your life, then release any attachment to the outcome. -- Joe Vitale
There's healthy attachment, like with a mother and child. It's biologically part of our survival. -- Tara Brach
Freedom is to be free of attachments, and the main attachment is to the 'I'-self. -- Mooji
Saying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf. -- Idries Shah
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. -- Ralph Marston
Liberals retain a totemic attachment to the Freudian idea that traumatic toilet training is destiny. -- Ilana Mercer
Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing. -- Mikhail Naimy

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