Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
The essence of the Way is detachment.
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
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.
When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection.
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
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.