Detachment Quotes

There are, of course, the people who revolve around themselves--but I agree with you, she's not one ...

I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate ...

There is a world of difference between the experienceof 'care' – the wiping of a bottom, the bathing...

The author reveals a cultural change that took place when clergy were paid based on a tax on the lan...

A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a d...

Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic researc...

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you...

You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, bu...

As long as we lean on anything outside ourselves for support, we are going to be insecure. Most of u...

Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts o...

Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I s...

Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I s...

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived...

—Alone, quite alone. You have no fear of that. And you know what that word means? Not only to be sep...

She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them.

Also the natural sexual functions of establishing an intimate human contact frequently assume greate...

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

When you run up against someone else’s shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shameles...

If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man?To welcome with affection what ...

Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pai...

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows ...

Technologies of the soul tend to be simple, bodily, slow and related to the heart as much as the min...