On Detachment ...

"He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, DETACHMENT." - Meister Eckhart

"The only way to find God, is to let go of God. I have sought earnestly and with great diligence that good and high virtue by which man may draw closest to God... and as far as my intelligence would permit, I find that high virtue to be pure disinterest... Our Lord said to Martha 'Unum est necessarium', which is to say; to be untroubled and pure, one thing is necessary and that is disinterest." - Meister Eckhart

"One who can control himself when in anger, in passion, in fear, and in attraction is safe from the hands of the devil and the fires of hell." - Muhammad (pbuh)

"Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe — a spirit vastly superior to that of man...In this way the pursuit of science lea ds to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is indeed quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive." - Albert Einstein

"The best way to dissociate yourself from your difficulty is to be mentally detached, as if you were merely a spectator, while at the same time seeking a remedy. The fact is, if you learn to live in your body without thinking of it as yourself, you won't suffer so much..." - Paramahansa Yogananda

"If you don’t take yourself seriously, you’ve got a chance. It’s when you take yourself seriously...that you can really founder." - Paul Newman

"As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is. - Ram Dass

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