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To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.

— Sharon Salzberg

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

— Padma Lakshmi

Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

— Beverly Sills

There is a certain inescapable attachment. If you are born somewhere and circumstances don't take you away from it, then you grow up and remain within it.

— Graham Swift

Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.

— Hanna Rosin

Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Simone Weil

Have a mind that's open to everything, get attached to nothing.

— Gary Busey

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

— Ramakrishna

✗Opposing Perspectives

Attachment is your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. Though it gives you the power to love someone more than yourself, it becomes difficult to live when you lose something you are attached to. Even when we have lost, we should go beyond that and get truly attached to someone. Loving someone truly is the most beautiful feeling.

— Shahid Kapoor

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.