Attachment

All misery and pain come from attachment.

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery.

Attachment comes only where we expect a return.

Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment.

From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the ruin of discrimination; and from the ruin of discrimination, a man perishes.

If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation.

Our misery comes, not from work, but by our getting attached to something. Take for instance, money: money is a great thing to have, earn it, says Krishna; struggle hard to get money, but don’t get attached to it. So with children, with wife, husband, relatives, fame, everything; you have no need to shun them, only don’t get attached. There is only one attachment and that belongs to the Lord, and to none other.

Swami Vivekananda’s quotes on non-attachment

Both attachment and detachment perfectly developed make a man great and happy.

They come in crowds when the lecture is free — when there is payment, they don't.

Good, bad, love, hate, and pleasure, pain Forever linked go, I dream of pleasure without pain, It never, never came; No one but me to blame.

The force of association makes out of this unreal world a reality; and the longer the company, the more real seems the shadow. But the day comes when the unreal goes to the unreal, and, ah, how sad to bear.

We put all our energies to concentrate and get attached to one thing; but the other part, though equally difficult, we seldom pay any attention to — the faculty of detaching ourselves at a moment's notice from anything.