detachment

While understanding that we need this matrix to experience life on earth, we should also be able to enjoy a certain sense of detachment from it, and thus feel more empowered to make our own choices. We should thus come out feeling much more in control of our own personal journeys.

[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)

It is impossible to control outcomes or results, although most of us have been programmed from a very young age to believe otherwise. The idea that we can perform actual __agic_ causes tremendous dysfunction, unnecessary suffering and prevents the development of emotional resilience.

All too often, the rabbit hole is as deep as you have dug it.

If you simply get detach from yourself, it gets easier for you to see, how you perceive life.

And do you see how beautiful and graceful the birds are when they are flying and soaring? The ground has many comforts for them to enjoy... But in the sky they are truly what a bird is meant to be. So it is with the human heart.

The greatest asset to the human experience is the ability to navigate one__ emotions. By practicing the skill of detachment, one can successfully step back from the potentially destructive and tune into the purely positive

Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises.

She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them.

Perhaps a past of bingeing, restricting, or purging comes back to haunt you from time to time. Maybe you have to fight hard battles against vanity, gluttony, and shame. But with God__ saving power, every new day is a gift, an opportunity to detach yourself from tormenting thoughts about food or how you look and to attach yourself to God. Remember, we all hunger for God, more than we hunger for a big bowl of ice cream or a perfect physique.

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.___es,_ said Harriet, __ut I am one of them. I disconcert myself very much. I never know what I do feel.___ don__ think that matters, provided one doesn__ try to persuade one__ self into appropriate feelings.

Crossing the Atlantic on that new day was supposed to be a sharp delineation, a from-now-on demarcation in my life story. What I took off from was not supposed to arrive with me upon landing or ever pulse in me again. From the ocean and sky and the hours in flight, I intended to extract a selective, permanent amnesia.

Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.

It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.