There is only attachment; there is no such thing as detachment. The mind invents detachment as a reaction to the pain of attachment. When you react to attachment by becoming “detached,” you are attached to something else. So that whole process is one of attachment. You are attached to your wife or your husband, to your children, to ideas, to tradition, to authority, and so on; and your reaction to that attachment is detachment. The cultivation of detachment is the outcome of sorrow, pain. You want to escape from the pain of attachment, and your escape is to find something to which you think you can be attached. So there is only attachment, and it is a stupid mind that cultivates detachment. All the books say, “Be detached,” but what is the truth of the matter? If you observe your own mind, you will see an extraordinary thing—that through cultivating detachment, your mind is becoming attached to something else. “Well, now, If suddenly If you think it long and mad, But “ “Treat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors.” “The Mountains we climb are mountains of the mind.” “Those who dance are considered mad by those who cannot hear the music.” “Life is a process not a thing. And, processes go well if there are many ways to influence them. We need more ways to do what we want than the one we know – even if it is a good one in itself.” “If nothing ever repeats itself, how could we learn?” “Words are more to hide our intentions than to express them.” In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive -Jordan Peterson “The Fool is the precursor to the Savior” -Carl Jung “A man’s fate and his character are two names for the same concept.” -Novalis Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
-Thomas Hobbes “Those who are destined to be hanged are not going to drown. ” -Putin “It doesn’t matter whether a cat is black and white. If it catches mice, it is a good cat. ” -Deng Xiaoping “If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable” -Thomas More “It is always better to prepare of for the inevitable then to pretend that it will not happen.” -Kishore Mahbubani “Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.” “It’s better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.” “The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.” “There’s one thing worse than change and that’s the status quo.”
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine. ”
Pablo Neruda
Quotes
-J. Krishnamurti