The essence of the Way is detachment.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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.