Nonattachment Quotes

“Be attached to nothing. Be grateful for everything.”
― david che, Total Law of Attraction: Unleash Your Secret Creative Power To Get What You Want!

“To know joy one must go much deeper. Joy is not mere sensation. It requires extraordinary refinement of the mind, but not the refinement of the self that gathers more and more to itself. Such a self, such a man, can never understand this state of joy in which the enjoyer is not.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti

“When we let go of our reactions and detach from other people's moods, actions, and words, we take back our power. Instead of reactors, we become self-determined actors in our lives. We take charge of ourselves and decide how we act in that moment and every moment, skyrocketing our self-esteem”
― Darlene Lancer, Codependency for Dummies

“Your commitment is to action alone, not to the fruits of action. That must never be: you must not be motivated by the fruits of your actions. Yet you must not become attached to inaction. Perform your duties as a warrior and cast off attachment, Arjuna, indifferent alike whether you gain or gain not. This indifference is called yoga.
Action is far lower than the rule of understanding, Arjuna. Seek refuge in wisdom. They are unworthy who are moved only by gain.
Lesson Two, verses 47-49”
― Bhagvad Gita

“To have self-esteem and to function in society, ordinary people usually place their mind on something; they need to identify themselves with something. People with the least spiritual capacity identify their minds with fame, fortune, and other kinds of self-benefit. People with mediocre spiritual capacity identify their minds with their family, career, and relations with others. People with high spiritual capacity generate compassion and place their minds on the benefit of others. Only people with the most superior spiritual capacity have no mind to place anywhere. This is like the ox, whose mind, while having no fixed agenda, is free to respond to circumstances.”
― Sheng Yen, The Method of No-Method: The Chan Practice of Silent Illumination

“Explore the mysteries of life through the portal of the body. This offers freedom from all forms of attachment in order to help you experience your state of bliss.”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“During the last year she was alive, at age 95, my mother said many times, “It’s so freeing to realize that nothing really matters.” She said it joyously, with relief, as if a burden had been lifted. She also said over and over, “Love yourself.”
― Joan Tollifson, Nothing to Grasp

“The trick is not to make an idea or a system out of this openness, a new dogma.”
― Joan Tollifson, Bare-Bones Meditation: Waking Up from the Story of My Life

“Safetyism be damned. Risk! Take the leaps you need to. Feel the heat you dread. Look into the light and move forward without fragelizing yourself and others. The hallmark of the change that is desired is that it requires the giving of oneself to the uncertain present, the unknown tomorrow.”
― Rainier Wylde, As You Are: Meditations on Self and Other

“Dogen-zenji said, "To give is nonattachment." That is, just not to attach to anything is to give.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“Sometimes the thing we are not able to let go of isn't benevolent. Sometimes we hang on to past hurts and old ideas. We refuse to let those die, that old darkness. But we have to let go - both of the things we despise and, often, the things that we love. Every ascended master will tell you the same thing: It's the ego that grips, and nonattachment is the path to freedom. But it never stops being difficult to let go - to say goodbye.”
― RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir

“What if the spaces we fear, between breaths, between boards, between who we were and who we might become, are the very air that sets us free?”
― Ronen Dancziger, The Boxmaker’s Apprentice

“When you try to catch the wind, your hand becomes a box. When you open your hand, the wind stays.”
― Ronen Dancziger, The Boxmaker’s Apprentice

“The path to freedom is not through a perfect ending, but through the continuation, a life lived with empty hands.”
― Ronen Dancziger, The Boxmaker’s Apprentice