A Quote by Goswami Kriyananda

Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment

Goswami Kriyananda

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Goswami Kriyananda
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May 19, 1926 - April 21, 2013

If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.

Anthony de Mello

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Chanakya

Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.

Adrienne Monnier

Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.

Mason Cooley

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau

Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.

Romare Bearden

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

Arthur Helps

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

James Carroll

Memory only becomes interesting through its struggle with forgetfulness.

Adrian Forty

The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom.

Socrates

Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world.

Gautama Buddha

Just seeing the fact that this is an attachment, that attachment is a bondage - a beautiful word for bondage - that attachment is not love... just seeing the ugliness of attachment - it drops; then arises love. The same energy that was becoming attachment, released from attachment becomes a totally different energy; it becomes love.

Rajneesh

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

James Stephens

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.

James Stephens

One of the reasons it is so difficult to break a connection to something or someone you have imprinted on is that after you imprint, it seeds into your mind and goes from working memory to stored, hard-wired memory from which it is much more difficult to sever that attachment.

Mark Goulston

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