Tara Brach Quotes

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Become alert about desire and non-attachment begins to appear. This is not to be made to happen, it follows naturally from awareness of attachment. Each one of us has to become aware of his attachments, and keep being so! Nothing should be done unconsciously.

Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer mind.

Don't cling to anything. Clinging is the cause of our being unconscious.

A witnessing consciousness lives in life but with tremendous non-attachment, with great non-possessiveness; it possesses nothing. It lives totally, it lives passionately, but still knowing that I don't possess anything.

Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool - sooner or later he will stink. He flows no more.

Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is. Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose

It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.

Witness your thoughts. Your thoughts are attachments.

Never have anything to do with likes and dislikes. The absence of what one likes is painful, as is the presence of what one dislikes. Therefore don't take a liking to anything. To lose what one likes is hard, but there are no bonds for those who have no likes and dislikes. From preference arises sorrow, from preference arises fear, but he who is freed from preference has no sorrow and certainly no fear.

When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.

Until you can let go of everything, you will find it hard to hold onto anything.

The easiest way to lose something is to want it too badly.

Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.

Attachment is the root cause of all misery - and our mind is such that it starts clinging to each and everything. It starts becoming identified, attached, it does not know how to keep a distance; hence the misery.

To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.

Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment.

Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to. When you have to.

Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.

Don't get attached to anything.

Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.

I don't ever be trippin off of what ain't mine.

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone