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  • When you have any kind of success in life, that's like the most dangerous moment that you're in because you're going to tend to think wow, I can just keep repeating what I've done. I'm a great person. People love me. All of the sudden they're giving me all of this attention. You get drunk on it and you lose your sense of balance and your sense of detachment. I know it's happened to me.

    Thinking   People   Drunk  
    Source: bigthink.com
  • [When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.

  • One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.

    Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.53, Penguin
  • Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

    Serenity   Path   Steps  
  • Says Bargh: "We all hold dear idea that we´re the captain of our own sould, and we´re in charge, and it´s a very scary feeling when we are not. In fact, that´s what psychosis is - the feeling of detachment from reality and that you are not in control, and that´s a very frightening feeling for anyone."

  • I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

  • Joy only can be achieved through complete detachment, the detachment which is egoless and superegoless.

    Love   Wisdom   Yoga  
  • The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do not see any paradox in it. Consider the case of the worshipper. He approaches God and prays to be absorbed in Him. He then surrenders himself in faith and by concentration. And what remains afterwards? In the place of the original 'I', self-surrender leaves a residuum of God in which the 'I' is lost. That is the highest form of devotion or surrender and the peak of detachment.

  • How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

    Life   Nice   Numbness  
    Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.140, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.

    Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2944, Delphi Classics
  • It stung this new rejection, but it was also a relief to put an end to the ambiguity and incertitude. I had been deceiving myself the day I decided I could master the art of detachment, or maybe the mistake was to allow things to go on in that vein for as long as they had.

    Art   Mistake   Long  
  • By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.

    Essence   Names   Giving  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.192, Penguin
  • Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

    allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”
  • And so I am feeling numb. It's a curious feeling, and I get it all the time. My attention to the world around me disappears, and something starts to hum inside my head. Far off, voices try to bump up against me, but I repel them. My ears fill up with water and I focus on the humming in my head.

    Numbness   Voice   Water  
    Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Madness: A Bipolar Life”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.

    Yield   Meditation   Soul  
    Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.271, Simon and Schuster
  • Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment!

    St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.28, St Athanasius Press
  • As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am I. That stone is a stone. My beautiful fusion with the things of this world was over.

    Beautiful   Stars   Wall  
    Sylvia Plath (1994). “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams”
  • The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what is empty turns its face to us and whispers: 'I am not empty, I am open'.

    Prayer   Wall   Taken  
    Tomas Transtromer (2017). “The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems”, p.126, Graywolf Press
  • Surrendering means cleansing yourself completely, getting completely detached. Detachment is the only way you can rise.

    Love   Wisdom   Yoga  
  • The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

  • He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating center of every drug deal. But now he'd found this warm thing, this chip of murder. Meat, some part of him said. It's the meat talking, ignore it.

    William Gibson (2000). “Neuromancer”, p.130, Penguin
  • No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no one will ever look at the earth in the same way. Man had to free himself from earth to perceive both its diminutive place in a solar system and its inestimable value as a life -fostering planet. As earthmen, we may have taken another step into adulthood. We can see our planet earth with detachment, with tenderness, with some shame and pity, but at last also with love.

    Taken   Moon   Men  
  • She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling lust, from feeling anything at all.

  • Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.

    Numbness   Skins   Body  
    Song: Remember The Tinman, Album: New Beginning, 1995
  • Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

  • The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's not the same as courage. It's closer to bad manners than to courage. If you're going to be a writer, you basically have to say, 'this is just who I am'. There's a certain indefensibility about it. It's not about loving your community and taking care of it — you're not attached to the chamber of commerce. It's a little unsafe. You have to be willing to have only four friends, not 11.

    "Lorrie Moore" by Louisa Kamps, www.elle.com. September 16, 2009.
  • It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.

    Sports   May   Gains  
  • The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The Law of Detachment: 1) Allow yourself and others the freedom to be who they are. 2) Do not force solutions - allow solutions to spontaneously emerge. 3) Uncertainty is essential, and you path to freedom.

    Law   Essentials   Path  
  • Because I frequently encountered obstacles such as old, entrenched ideas, ongoing power struggles, or the lack of staff and money, I also learned to develop patience and detachment.

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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