Quotes about Attachment

In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.

The hardest thing of love is to let go.

We are to enjoy what we have while we have it, but we are never to get to the point where we think we could not love without it.

Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet)

Make sure your soul is attached at all times - this town will steal it in a second, given the chance.

You will only see who you are and thus be who you are as you surrender your attachment to all other identities

Our bodies, our relationships, our lives. We're terrified of losing those things because we think they make us who we are. Fear of loss keeps it all in place. Dying means letting go of all of it, our entire life in the world, to know ourselves beyond the images and relationships apparent in this world.

The only way to know yourself in and as the light is to let go of all your attachments to who you think you are in this world. You know the sayings: hate your entire life, deny yourself, take up the cross. All these mean the same thing. Let go of the meaning you give life in all your judgments of value based on the knowledge of good and evil. You've heard this?" "Jesus said those things," I said, knowing the verses well.

Often love is offered to you, but you do not recognize it. You discard it because you are fixed on receiving it from the same person to whom you gave it.

Our clinging to the opinions of others reveals how superficial we are. We have little to stand on. We have to be kept alive by adulation and praise. Those who are deeply rooted in the love of God can enjoy human praise without being attached to it.

There are days, weeks and maybe months and years during which we are so overwhelmed by our sense of loneliness that we can hardly believe that the solitude of heart is within our horizon. But when we have once sensed what this solitude can mean, we will never stop searching for it. Once we have tasted this solitude a new life becomes possible, in which we can become detached from false ties and attached to God and each other in a surprisingly new way.

There is no remedy for love but to love more. - Henry David Thoreau