Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.
I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.
It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us.
Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.
Don't cling to anything. Clinging is the cause of our being unconscious.
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
Fear has never helped anybody make good choices. It leads to clinging when we should be walking.
Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life
Freedom from clinging gives room in our hearts to grow.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
The difference between the Japanese and the American is summed up in their opposite reactions to the proverb (popular in both nations), "A rolling stone gathers no moss. " Epidemiologist S. Leonard Syme observes that to the Japanese, moss is exquisite and valued; a stone is enhanced by moss; hence a person who keeps moving and changing never acquires the beauty and benefits of stability. To Americans, the proverb is an admonition to keep rolling, to keep from being covered with clinging attachments.
The past is not clinging to you; YOU are clinging to the past. Once you are not clinging, the past simply EVAPORATES!
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
X-Men is not a story about superheroes, but a story about the ongoing revolutionary struggle between goodnew and badold. The X-Men are every rebel teenager wanting to change the world and make it better. Humanity is every adult, clinging to the past, trying to destroy the future even as he places all his hopes there.
The art of living. . . is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world. Later, as the earth's span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through time and space -- to another stopping place in the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of Mercury. But there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its horror-filled core, before the utter end.
All duality is a mind creation, all duality is created by the clinging and attached mind. When there is no attachment there is no duality.
Sadly, I cant avoid being 75. Like many people of my age, we are all heading towards the grim reaper, and I am clinging on. I just to have to sharpen my fingernails a little so that I can hang on for longer!
Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.