Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Is detachment the answer to freedom? No, because detachment is negative - it is to be without. The answer must be positive - I must replace what I have with something better.
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
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.
That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
The essence of the Way is detachment.
Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.