"Attachment comes only where we expect a..." - Quote by Swami Vivekananda
Attachment comes only where we expect a return.
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“Drama is the most difficult of all arts. In it two things are to be satisfied - first, the ears, and second, the eyes. To paint a scene, if one thing be painted, it is easy enough; but to paint different things and yet to keep up the central interest is very difficult. Another difficult thing is stage - management, that is, combining different things in such a manner as to keep the central interest intact.”
“He who conquers self conquers all.”
“Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.”
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“In either case, ugly or beautiful, people derive a significant part of their identity, be it negative or positive, from their body. To be more precise, they derive their identity from the I-thought that they erroneously attach to the mental image or concept of their body.Equating the physical sense-perceived body that is destined to grow old, wither and die with 'I' always leads to suffering sooner or later.”
“Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.”
“The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.”
More on Expectation
“Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.”
“The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous.”
“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”