#detach

I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

#detached #feel #go #going #i

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#analysis #cool #detached #i #low

Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts of alms, but if any good man or any good woman awakens the thought of Enlightenment and takes even only four lines from this Discourse, reciting, using, receiving, retaining and spreading them abroad and explaining them for the benefit of others, it will be far more meritorious. Now in what manner may he explain them to others? By detachment from appearances-abiding in Real Truth. -So I tell you- Thus shall you think of all this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream; A flash of lightening in a summer cloud, A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream. When Buddha finished this Discourse the venerable Subhuti, together with the bhikshus, bhikshunis, lay-brothers and sisters, and the whole realms of Gods, Men and Titans, were filled with joy by His teaching, and, taking it sincerely to heart they went their ways. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#detachment #diamond-sutra #illusions #inspirational #life

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#alone #anything #center #detached #fashions

...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it. ↗

— M.F.K. Fisher

#life #art

Although contemplating the nature of the body highlights its less attractive features, the purpose of the exercise is not to demonize the body. While it is certainly true that at times the discourses describe the human body in rather negative terms, some of these instances occur in a particular context in which the point being made is that the speakers in question have overcome all attachment to their body. In contrast, the Kāyagatāsati Sutta takes the physical bliss of absorption attainment as an object for body contemplation. This passage clearly demonstrates that contemplation of the body is not necessarily linked to repugnance and loathing. The purpose of contemplating the nature of the body is to bring its unattractive aspects to the forefront of one's attention, thereby placing the attractive aspects previously emphasized in a more balanced context. The aim is a balanced and detached attitude towards the body. With such a balanced attitude, one sees the body merely as a product of conditions, a product with which one need not identify. ↗

— Anālayo

#body-image #buddhism #contemplation #detachment #meditation

Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#country #detached #guy #obama #party

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#become #claim #democratic #democratic party #democrats

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment. ↗

— Sam Snead

#certain #consistently #course #detachment #distance

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#detach #himself #his #man #must