Detached Action Quotes

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.

Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.

To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.

The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.

When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to know; to love is to act. If you really love, from the depths of your Consciousness, that love gives you a native wisdom. You perceive the needs of others intuitively and clearly, with detachment from any personal desires; and you know how to act creatively to meet those needs, dexterously surmounting any obstacle that comes in the way. Such is the immense, driving power of love.

When you do something just because it is needed, you involve yourself totally without it meaning anything to you, then action becomes liberating.