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    Because I frequently encountered obstacles such as old, entrenched ideas, ongoing power struggles, or the lack of staff and money, I also learned to develop patience and detachment.

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    Detachment is the ultimate pleasure.

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    Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too.

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    Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.

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    Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.

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    Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

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    Especially with iPhones, iPads and apps, there's just so much detachment that you're just flicking your fingers on a smooth surface to get the weather or whatever.

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    How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?

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    Detachment is the beginning of mastery.

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    detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.

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    Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

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    If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

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    Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment!

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    Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood - or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.

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    Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.

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    She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.

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    Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

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    The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement.

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    The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.

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    The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

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    There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

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    The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

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    Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.

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    We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.

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    5 One or two things are all you need to travel over the blue pond, over the deep roughage of the trees and through the stiff flowers of lightning --- some deep memory of pleasure, some cutting knowledge of pain. 6 But to lift the hoof! For that you need an idea. 7 For years and years I struggled just to love my life. And then the butterfly rose, weightless, in the wind. "Don't love your life too much," it said, and vanished into the world.

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    All this fighting over ideas is absolutely pointless. You have to remove yourself.

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    All this fighting over ideas is absolutely useless. You have to remove yourself.

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    All this wandering that you do," he said, leaning in the window, his face white as a cream cheese, his scar the carved zigzag of a snowmobile across a winter lake. Wind blew handsomely through his hair. "How will anyone ever get close to you?" "I don't know," she said. She shook his hand through the window and then put on her gloves.

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    —Alone, quite alone. You have no fear of that. And you know what that word means? Not only to be separate from all others but to have not even one friend. —I will take the risk, said Stephen. —And not to have any one person, Cranly said, who would be more than a friend, more even than the noblest and truest friend a man ever had.

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    And do you see how beautiful and graceful the birds are when they are flying and soaring? The ground has many comforts for them to enjoy... But in the sky they are truly what a bird is meant to be. So it is with the human heart.

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    A Sufi is one who is not bound by anything nor does he bind anything

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

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    But if detachment is really fear of failure and hence never putting oneself to the test, or if it’s fear of being hurt, humiliated or rejected, then one is closing all doors to life, to the possibilities of happiness, pain, dejection, achievement and experience. Reincarnation may be on the cards for most of us but we live this particular life, whether it is maya or whatever else, only once. This is our only chance to engage it. Excess

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    Denial protected us, screening out certain experiences & feelings until we grew strong enough to relate to them...Yet it also dropped a curtain over our experience, obscuring it, leaving us with a sense of missing pieces. For instance, when we achieved something, we felt like an imposter. Or, though we had a relationship with a significant other, we often felt alone and unrelated to anyone.

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    Detachment is a basic requirement for seeking enlightenment. Anyone or anything we are attached to has power to manipulate us although we all have freedom to choose.

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    Detachment is being apathetic or aloof to other people, while un-attachment is acknowledging and honoring other people, while choosing not to let them influence your emotional well being. Detached would mean I do not care, while un-attached means I care, although I am not going to alter my emotional state due to your emotions, words, or actions.

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    Detachment is not giving up the things in this world, but accepting the fact and to be continuously aware that nothing is permanent.

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    Detachment doesn't mean avoiding things and going to Himalayas. It means doing what is necessary without drowning in it.

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    Detachment is a tricky business. If we are seeking to access the innate wisdom in our emotions, detachment itself cannot be the goal… because in order to hear what our emotions have to say, we have to be willing to feel them.

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    Detachment is ... Not lack of love, but a lack of dependency. Not lack of passion, but a lack of attachment to permanency. Not lack of security, but a lack of anxiety in uncertainty.

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    Detachment doesn’t mean you should ignore form; it means you have to attach to form through and through. A form may bother you, but you need form because you love truth, you love peace, you love life itself.

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    Detachment is a mere word…a delusion to keep us occupied to deal with the struggles and realities of this world.

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    Detachment, properly understood, means freedom, inner freedom. And, although it is not a word Jesus used, detachment expresses very well an important element in his spirituality: the ability to let go. In the Christian tradition this has been spoken of as “purity of heart” or as the process of becoming “poor in spirit.

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    Detach yourself from external circumstances to reconnect with spirit, with love, with peace.

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    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". Tollifson, Joan. Nothing to Grasp (p. 174). New Harbinger Publications. Kindle Edition.

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    Et jamais je n’ai senti, si avant, à la fois mon détachement de moi-même et ma présence au monde

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    Free of me, I was whole.

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    Pain is always preferable to numbness.

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    The property of the estate owners (pomeshchiks) doesn't belong to any particular detachment, but to the people as a whole. Let the people take what they want.

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    There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.