self-attachment Quotes

Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.

The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.

The Fondness we have for Self, and the Relation which other Persons and Things have to ourselves, furnish us with another long Rank of Prejudices.

The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.

I'm so proud of my time in karate and what I achieved. It's part of me, so I don't want to leave it behind.

If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.

Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'.

The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves.

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .

The psychological origins of love are in attachment to parents and sexual partners. We do not attach to ourselves; we do not seek security and fulfillment in ourselves.

The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.

Some people get attached to their practice. They get good at it, but even becoming a good meditator can become a hindrance.