"How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them."
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"Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care. What you wish to sing of as tragic love is an attachment not carefully chosen. Die for one person? This is a craziness. Persons change, leave, die, become ill. They leave, lie, go mad, have sickness, betray you, die. Your nation outlives you. A cause outlives you."
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"A man could be in a throne and have no attachment at all; another one could be in rags and have many attachments."
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"Freedom is to be free of attachments, and the main attachment is to the 'I'-self."
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"Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world."
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"Softly and kindly remind yourself, ''I cannot own anything.'' It is a valuable thought to keep in mind as you struggle to improve your financial picture, worry about investments, and plan how to acquire more and more. It is a universal principle which you are part of. You must release everything when you truly awaken. Are you letting your life go by in frustration and worry over not having enough? If so, relax and remember that you only get what you have for a short period of time. When you awaken you will see the folly of being attached to anything."
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"One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue."
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"I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left."
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"Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death. Because this death releases you into real life. You have to die as a seed to live as a tree."
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"The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life."
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"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."
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"Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss. The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance. The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God ."
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"Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment."
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"Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms."
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"In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy."
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"Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours."
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"Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached."
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"When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments."
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"Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path."
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"A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years."
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