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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.
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.
The essence of the Way is detachment.
Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.