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Topic·Attachment (Buddhism)✕clear

Historical literature

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 5.7

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

The things you own end up owning you.

Fight Club · 1999

★ 4.0

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

Even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is to go astray.

Jianzhi Sengcan

606

★ 3.9

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

65

★ 3.7

Scripture · Religious literature

The Noble Truth of Suffering is this: Birth is suffering, aging is suffering; sickness is suffering; death is suffering; sorror and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering; association with the unpleasant is suffering; dissociation from the pleasant is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering-in brief, the five aggregates of attachment are suffering.

Pali Tipitaka

100 BC

★ 3.6

Scripture · Religious literature

The person who is searching for his own happiness should pull out the dart that he has stuck in himself, the arrow-head of grieving, of desiring, of despair.

Pali Tipitaka

100 BC

★ 3.6

Political literature · Philosophical literature

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 2.2

Autobiography and memoir

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden · 1854

★ 2.2

Philosophical literature

Those who are contented and at ease when the occasion comes and live in accord with the course of Nature cannot be affected by sorrow or joy. This is what the ancients called release from bondage. Those who cannot release themselves are so because they are bound by material things.

221 BC

★ 2.0

Scripture · Religious literature

Only by love can men see me, and know me and come unto me. He who works for me, who loves me, whose End Supreme I am, free from attachment to all things, and with love for all creation, he in truth comes unto me.

Bhagavad Gita

200 BC

★ 2.0

Scripture · Religious literature

When in recollection he withdraws all his senses from the attractions of the pleasures of sense, even as a tortoise withdraws all his limbs, then his is a serene wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

200 BC

★ 2.0

Scripture · Religious literature

Set thy heart upon thy work but never upon its reward. Work not for a reward: but never cease to do thy work. Do thy work in the peace of Yoga and, free from selfish desires, be not moved in success or in failure.

Bhagavad Gita

200 BC

★ 2.0