Quotes about Attachment

We might more accurately think of nonattachment as nondependency. Much of our inner turbulence reflects the fear of loss: our dependence on people, circumstances, and things not really under our control. On some level we know that death, indifference, rejection, repossession, or high tide may leave us bereft in the morning. Still, we clutch desperately at things we cannot finally hold. Nonattachment is the most realistic of attitudes. It is freedom from wishful thinking, from always wanting things to be otherwise.

As time goes on, it will become obvious through your practice of the Dharma that hatred toward anyone is a mistake.

You will have nothing but good thoughts and intentions toward all beings.

So, too, the pointlessness of becoming attached to anyone and anything will also become obvious,

and you will see that all objects of attachment are like things perceived in dreams,

like phantasmagoric illusions.

In my native land waves of attachment to friends and kin surge,

Hatred for enemies rages like fire,

The darkness of stupidity, not caring what to adopt or avoid, thickens -

To abandon my native land is the practice of a bodhisattva

The near enemy of love is attachment...True love allows, honors, and appreciates; attachment grasps, demands, needs, and aims to possess.

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel. You can value and care for things, but whenever you get attached to them, you will know it’s the ego.

Ego identification with things creates attachment to things, obsession with things, which in turn creates our consumer society and economic structures where the only measure of progress is always more.

How do you let go of attachment to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.