Physical Attachment Quotes

Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.

I would never use prosthetics. I don't like sticking things on. I don't really like wearing wigs, either.

Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.

I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.

Body is an unreal dream, and we think we are all bodies.

As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate.

I feel naked without earrings. I'll pass out twice. It feels like I'm missing a body part.

My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other.

A part of me isn't like those women who love being pregnant. I love my baby, and I miss that feeling of being attached to him when he's kicking, but I was so ready to not be pregnant.

It is not sex per se - your identification with the body is the impediment to your spiritual growth.

Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off—all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms… That’s how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears.