#detach

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

#freedom #makes #men #most #obedience

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#envy #greed #illusions #selfishness #simplicity

I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind. ↗

— Charles Bronson

#anguish #course #detached #felt #happening

What kind of man would I have been if I had not been there to help her? I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. ↗

— Charles Bronson

#anguish #been #course #detached #felt

Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#detached #easy #flexible #others #spiritual

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

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

As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good not bad. Keep meditating.' ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#detachment #experience