Because I happen to believe that the best policy solutions lie in the center ground, then I want to see, how does the center revitalize itself? How does it develop the policy agenda for the future? And how do we link up people who have the same basic ideas and attachments to the same basic values across the world?
Selfless giving reminds us that there is an eternally present spirit in all of us, that when revealed, liberates us from both the transitory and the eternal - both of which ultimatly can be attachments.
In Sadhana there will be internal talk with God. You will give up all attachments and attach only to God.
The real goal of Zen is to find a way of life that's easy and undramatic. Strong attachments lead to upset and drama.
One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.
I am often talking about the ideas collected in Normal Life in contexts that are not academic, or that are full of people who are not primarily engaging as theorists or theory-readers. Being able to make ideas visual, especially critical ideas about movements that can be difficult to hear because of attachments we have to certain national narratives, or because of ways that we see ourselves, is especially useful.
You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
Freedom is to be free of attachments, and the main attachment is to the 'I'-self.
All our attachments are outward oriented and hence this illusion.
Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.
In the mountains, worldly attachments are left behind, and in the absence of material distractions, we are opened up to spiritual thought. We should be attempting to carry the spiritual experience of the mountains with us everywhere.
Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free.
The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.
If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments
Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.
