35 Inspiring Quotes on Attachment

Attachment is something that is experienced by children and adults alike. This state can work for or against us, and I hope these quotes about attachment inspire you today.

Best Quotes About Attachment

1. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed that is. Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.

Yoda

2. Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t “should’ve” done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!

Steve Maraboli

3. Attachment is the source of all suffering.

Buddha

4. Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.

Simone Weil

5. Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.

Nhat Hanh

6. A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.

Ram Dass

7. 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.

Byron Katie

8. According to Buddhist psychology, most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent.

Dalai Lama

9. Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You’re able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.

Ralph Marston

10. Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go.

Jackson Kiddard

11. What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

Sogyal Rinpoche

12. Attachment is the strongest block to realization.

Neem Karoli Baba

13. Attachment is the strongest block to realization.

Neem Karoli Baba

14. Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

Jane Austen

15. Stand in the reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non-attachment.

Swami Vivekananda

16. Cut the cords of attachment. Expand the circle of love.

Shri Radhe Maa

17. Non-attachment is the process of creating without being attached to the results.

Beth Banning

18. Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment.

Goswami Kriyananda

19. To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.

Laozi

20. Non-attachment is the process of creating without being attached to the results.

Beth Banning

21. The more attached we are to a vision of the future, the less present we are to what is actually trying to emerge here and now.

Peter Merry

22. That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.

Tara Brach

23. One should discard attachment to be happy.

Chanakya

24. Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see ‘I am’.

Rajneesh

25. My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding.

Osho

26. Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

27. Always perform your duty efficiently and without attachment to the results, because by doing work without attachment one attains the Supreme.

Bhagavad Gita

28. Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Simone Weil

29. Love without attachment is light.

Norman O. Brown

30. Getting attached to someone is more easy than being in love with someone. Attachment fades away with time and distance but love can be smelled till after death.

Aishwarika

31. The less attached you are, the more peaceful you are.

Anonymous

32. Cut the cords of attachment. Expand the circle of love.

Shri Radhe Maa

33. It’s not the appearance that binds you, it’s the attachment to the appearance that binds you.

Tilopa

34. Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.

Mahatma Gandhi

35. If you expect miracles in your life, then release any attachment to the outcome.

Joe Vitale

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