ATTACHMENT QUOTES
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
-- Marcus Aurelius
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water
and breeds reptiles of the mind.
-- William Blake
Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
-- John Milton
Buddha's doctrine: man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent. Chief among these things is his own person, for this is his means of isolating himself from the rest of life, his castle into which he can retreat and from which he can assert himself against external forces. He believes that his fortified and isolated position is the best means of obtaining happiness; it enables him to fight against change, to strive to keep pleasing things for himself, to shut out suffering and shape circumstances as he wills. In short, it is his means of resisting life. The Buddha taught that all things, including his castle, are essentially impermanent and as soon as man tries to possess them they slip away; this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.
-- Alan Watts
Zen masters hold that an individual's full understanding of Zen is often precipitated by the hearing of a single phrase exactly calculated to destroy his particular demon of ignorance; so they have always favored the brief paradoxical dialogue as a means of instruction; finding it of great value in giving a sudden jolt to a pupil's mind which may propel him towards or over the brink of Enlightenment.
-- John Blofeld
Disappointment, always a shock to the feelings, it not only the
mother of bitterness but the strongest possible incentive to a
differentiation of feeling. The failure of a pet plan, the disappointing behaviour of someone one loves, can supply the impulse either for a more or less brutal outburst of affect or for a modification and adjustment of feeling , and hence for it's higher development. This culminates in wisdom if feeling is supplemented by reflection and rational insight.
-- Carl Jung
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
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