Attachment

“Attachment is bondage. Attachment disappears with the elimination of the ego.”
~ Ramana Maharshi

“You must choose between your attachments and happiness.”
~ Adyashanti

“Attachment is the strongest block to realization.”
~ Neem Karoli Baba

“Everything you attach yourself to in this world, person, place and thing keeps you back. You have to become totally non-attached. You have to become totally free of attachment to your body, to your mind, and to others.”
~ Robert Adams

“The soul that has attachment to anything, however much virtue it possess, will not attain the liberty of Divine union.”
~ St. John of the Cross

“If you want to go all the way, throw all away. …Throw away your attachments, your desires, your needs and immediately you are in a state of total freshness. Total wholeness.”
~ Mooji

“I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is … to be realized only by the wise.”
~ Buddha

“Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.”
~ Ramakrishna

“Those who surrender to Brahman all selfish attachments are like the leaf of a lotus floating clean and dry in water. Sin cannot touch them.”
~ Bhagavad Gita

“Let go your attachment to the unreal and the real will swiftly and smoothly step into its own. … With this will come great love which is not choice or predilection, nor attachment, but a power which makes all things love-worthy and lovable.”
~ Nisargadatta

“The senses and the ego will flow towards your attachments. To make them move in a different direction, you have to give up these attachments.”
~ H.W.L. Poonja, “Papaji”

“Her heart is full of joy with love, for in the Lord her mind is stilled. She has renounced every selfish attachment and draws abiding joy and strength from the One within.”
~ Saint Teresa of Ávila

“To attain to perfect purity one has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action; to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion.”
~ Gandhi
Greg ? R. Danforth