Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.
Tags: illusions selfishness simplicity greed envy detachment
The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
Gustave FlaubertTags: idolatry detachment idols love-disappointment
Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts of alms, but if any good man or any good woman awakens the thought of Enlightenment and takes even only four lines from this Discourse, reciting, using, receiving, retaining and spreading them abroad and explaining them for the benefit of others, it will be far more meritorious. Now in what manner may he explain them to others? By detachment from appearances-abiding in Real Truth. -So I tell you-
Thus shall you think of all this fleeting world:
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream;
A flash of lightening in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.
When Buddha finished this Discourse the venerable Subhuti, together with the bhikshus, bhikshunis, lay-brothers and sisters, and the whole realms of Gods, Men and Titans, were filled with joy by His teaching, and, taking it sincerely to heart they went their ways.
Tags: life inspirational truth illusions perception buddhism detachment diamond-sutra
They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.
Gabrielle ZevinTags: heart birth heartbreak detachment
...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it.
M.F.K. FisherTags: life detachment
All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.
David BaldacciTags: war change civilization mankind poverty journalism detachment awards pulitzer-prize war-reporting
You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn't care. I guess that's what's scariest: not caring about the loss.
Douglas CouplandTags: loss numbness detachment
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.
Simone WeilTags: reality attachment detachment simone-weil
It's life that matters, nothing but life—the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: discovery detachment clinging 1869 hippolyte
[...]one should act as if the things he cherished the most were already lost or broken.
H.J. BruesTags: detachment teachings life-lesson
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