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When we hold on too tightly to our attachments we are trying to keep them just as they are, to make them permanent. But nothing in life is permanent.
People always tend to identify, instinctively, freedom with abandon.But the type of abandon that seeks personal gratification always gets you "tied up in a knot."Abandon instead your personal fears and desires ... and you, the real you, will become freed, released from the bonds of your own mind.
What is alienation? Thought.
Letting go is not getting rid of. Letting go is letting be.
The strange sense of being disassembled
He glued the chair to my ass."
Silence.
"Is it still ... attached?"
"I can't get it off.
You cannot force things apart that are bound at the heart.
You better be glad that thing is attached, or it would follow me home. Then I'd have to keep it.
There should be a disconnect button you can push when someone leaves: you've fucked me over; therefore I no longer love you. I'm not asking for the button to be connected to an ejector seat that removes them from the universe, just one small button that removes them from your heart.
We all are bound to those around us by glue, and to our pasts, and sometimes we need to dissolve it... They say you need to pull all the pieces apart and stand back to see how they fit together. Deconstruction. But what if then they can't be put back together?
The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material
the material informs the form,
Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.
This next part is not going to be any fun, but it's like taking off a band-aid. It has to be done.
Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment.
You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name.
Being detached means recognizing our emotions as what they are: clouds, sunbursts, weather. They pass. So rather than feed on my anger or sadness, rolling about in it like a pig in its own filth, I see that it is weather, and know that in time it will pass
I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other.
I knew it was easier to drill things in than to take them out.'
'It's like a screw!' Craig-Vyvyan shouted.... 'If you pull off it's head, you never get it out.
unselfing themselves
When your back is against the wall, you will find it is a good place to push off.
We withdraw not to disappear, but to find another ground from which to see; a solid ground from which to step, and from which to speak again, in a different way, a clear, rested, embodied voice we begin to remember again as our own.
The relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh.
Disconnecting from one's community is a personal choice, of course, but it ends up having social implications ["The Basement," The Awl, Feb 5, 2015].
Cut the cords of attachment. Expand the circle of love.
as soon as we become accustomed to the silent presence of a thing, it gets broken or disappears. My ties to the people around me were also marked by those two modes of impermanence: breaking up or disappearing.
Dangling in space I realised I could always slip out of the harness. I looked forward to the peace of the great release.
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at the moment I have yet to hear of it.
If you disaggregate, things fall apart.
Some things are impossible to tear yourself away from.
All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one ...
Separation is painful, but so is its opposite. And if being together brings joy, then it is only proper that separation should do the same in its own way.
When we come to nonattachment, then we can understand the marvelous mystery of the universe: how it is intense activity and at the same time intense peace, how it is work every moment and rest every moment.
There is true freedom in letting go.
but sometimes the things that matter to you most are also the things that hurt you the most. And in order to get over that hurt, you have to sever all the extensions that keep you tethered to that pain.
First, one has the difficulty of emancipating oneself from one's chains; and, ultimately, one has to emancipate oneself from this emancipation too.
Love is a thread that ties us together. Separation makes this thread much stronger.
Sometimes the comfort of being in a relationship lulls you into mundane complacency; you become irrelevant in each other's lives. We call this phenomenon
'growing apart'.
Letting go is a hard, hard thing. Some days, it seems impossible. Stubbornness sets in, heels dig firmly into the dirt below us, and fingers refuse to uncurl from something so precious to one's heart even if by a centimeter. Other days, though, it's a fervent wish.
Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.
At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.
Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing.
Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.
I was just pulling your leg and it came off in my hand.
What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out.
I left the only way you can leave. You pull your life off all at once - like a Band-Aid.
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away
When we had surmounted the acclivity, I was about to withdraw my arm from his, but by a slight tightening of the elbow was tacitly informed that such was not his will, and accordingly desisted.
Breaking free, or not, is usually determined by whether you want to get somewhere slowly or nowhere fast.
As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.
Why do we feel the need to disconnect in order to connect?
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.
It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.
Being aware of the bondage is enough to free you from its clutches.
I am unattached; My heart is very quiet.
Coupling is frenzy; decoupling is farce.
Our call is to an engaged alienation,
It unscrews the other way.
Detachment is the ultimate pleasure.
The only way I'm letting you go is off.
Non-attachment is about not being attached to anything - including non-attachment itself.
I don't want to detach. I don't want to go live in a gated community.
I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.
I didn't try to pull away; things that can bench-press Toyotas don't let go.
Don't get attached to anything.
The greatest asset to the human experience is the ability to navigate one's emotions. By practicing the skill of detachment, one can successfully step back from the potentially destructive and tune into the purely positive
Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.
Walking away from my desert companions feels like cutting off a limb. How does one say good-bye to an arm? One doesn't, I suppose. One pretends it isn't happening.
Every disconnection is death.
How do you let go of attachment to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.
If we were really unattached, we should escape all this pain of vain expectation, and could cheerfully do good work in the world. Never will unhappiness or misery come through work done without attachment. The world will go on with its happiness and misery through eternity.
Unplug yourself often and you risk losing touch with your feelings altogether.
In some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself.
Listen, ultimately we have to let go of all attachments - I mean all attachments.
I had to sever my emotional cord to escape the anger and shame that silently slithered through my head, disconnecting myself from the stares and whispers that followed me down the hall.
Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.
The death of the individual is not disconnection but simply withdrawal. The corpse is like a footprint or an echo - the dissolving trace of something which the Self has ceased to do.
Hold on tightly - let go lightly
Unbinding the Heart means to really look at the areas in our lives where we withhold our own love from our self and others.
As the mind, so the person; bondage or liberation are in your own mind." If you feel bound, you are bound. If you feel liberated, you are liberated. Things outside neither bind nor liberate you; only your attitude toward them does that.
How deeply bound by cords of family anger we all are[ ... ]None of us breaks free.
She owned a pipe wrench. Maybe if she whacked the sink enough it would unplug. (Angie)
[Let] go of your attachments: your attachment to being right, to having total control, or to living forever. This process of letting go is integral to the process of becoming whole.
for to have a deep attachment for a person (or a place or thing) is to have taken them as the terminating object of our instinctual responses."
Separation anxiety. International Journal of Psycho-Analysts, XLI, 1-25 (1959(
Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.
I can't untie myself from you, Clary - not my heart or my blood or my mind or any other part of me.
If you want to be free, all you have to do is let go.Free-- Terry Hayes
When I release, you loose teeth.
It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate.
In order to travel far you have to be detached.
The doctrine of non-attachment.
The Master's warning that we should not practice anything except self-detaching immersion.
out pulled the chair
Leaving can sometimes be the best way to never go away.
CLEAVE. To cleave to something is to cling to it with all your heart, he said, but to cleave something apart is to break it up.
The life of separation may be a path of sorrow, but it is the highway of safety; and though the separated life may cost you many pangs, and make every day a battle, yet it is a happy life after all.
Detachment is a basic requirement for seeking enlightenment. Anyone or anything we are attached to has power to manipulate us although we all have freedom to choose.
He let go, releasing her into a life of her own making.
The only certain freedom's in departure.
Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.