40 Quotes About Clinging

La fuente de la mayoria de los males radica en cómo los seres humanos se aferran a los seres humanos.

Fighting a change and clinging to the same old ways of doing things have never proved to be productive for anyone - you or your customers.

Everything is impermanent. Every physical and mental experience arises and passes. Everything in existence is endlessly arising out of causes and conditions. We all create suffering for ourselves through our resistance, through our desire to have things different than the way they are - that is, our clinging or aversion.

Where there is 'freedom from' without corresponding interrelationship, there is the anxiety of the defiant and isolated individual. Where there is dependence without freedom, there is the anxiety of the clinging person who cannot live outside a symbiosis.

The secure attachment of Western psychology is actually akin to Buddhist non-attachment; avoid-ant attachment is the inverse of being mindful and present; and anxious attachment aligns with Buddhist notions of clinging and grasping.

Even if we were very good at making everything outside of ourselves be just the way we ourselves want it to be (a ludicrous thought, you must admit), we could fundamentally never get everything perfect: because our desires are always changing, because they are often conflicting, and because the changes of the environment can never keep up with the pace of the wanting mind. The satisfaction of desire as a strategy for happiness will always be a doomed enterprise.

The one for whom enemy and friend,honour and infamy,cold and heat,pleasure and pain,are the same,who has moved awayfrom clinging,the one whomcurse and praise are equal,who keeps silent,content with whatsoevercomes his way,without home, with steady mind,full of devotion,that one is dear to me.

Life is very strange. Here we miss the very thing that we crave for and cling to, and we find what we don’t seek. If one does not seek anything, it means he does not lack it, he already has it.

Expectations have definitely dropped. A lot of people are clinging to jobs they might not enjoy doing just for the sake of job security.