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Letter "D" » detachment
«Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same: you forget yourself.»
Author: Claude Roy
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
attachment, detachment, discomfort, discomforting, discomforts, looking at, misfortune
«To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
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Grief
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achieved, cost, detachment, excludes, excluding, grief, oneself, price, spare, sparing, total, totals
«He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.»
«There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.»
«Living in solitude, eating lightly, controlling the thought, word, and deed; ever absorbed in yoga of meditation, and taking refuge in detachment.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
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absorbed, controlling, deed, detachment, lightly, meditation, refuge, yoga
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