Quotes about Attachment

The psyche's attachment to the brain, i.e., its space-time limitation, is no longer as self-evident and incontrovertible as we have hitherto been led to believe. … It is not only permissible to doubt the absolute validity of space-time perception; it is, in view of the available facts, even imperative to do so.

The love of heaven must drive out the inordinate love of what is earthly.

I especially like your autumn trees, gracefully letting their leaves fall. That is how I would like to shed my own leaves in this autumn of life, easily and elegantly. Why be so attached to what we are bound to lose anyway? I suppose I mean youth, which has been so present in our conversations.

My Nini wanted to get another dog, as much like Daisy as possible, but my Popo said that it was not a question of replacing her, but of trying to live without her. "I can't, Popo. I loved her so much!" I sobbed inconsolably. "That affection is inside you, Maya, not in Daisy. You can give it to other animals, and what's left over you can give to me

Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with.

Anyone who achieves any kind of success, however you want to define it, sometimes can't let go of it.

Love hurts because we think that's what love is.

When they fall in love with a city, it is for forever and it is like forever.

Nobody loved her and she wouldn't have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.

The real challenge the rich young man faced was not just giving up his possessions, but giving up himself. The last command Jesus says ("Come, follow me") is the one that we so often overlook and think that he must have left Jesus simply because he liked his green bills.

If a man own land, the land owns him.