Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.
people in general are totally unable to detach the personality of a writer from the products of his thinking.
She didn't want to run, period. It made her breasts feel like they were going to detach from her body.
Detach from emotions and desires; get rid of any fixations.
By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.
We cannot preserve philanthropic and charitable values if we detach them completely from our fundamental personal beliefs and convictions.
There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.
It's weird when you're watching yourself in a film - you can't really detach yourself from the experiences you've had that day. You're never watching the film as a proper punter.
An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.
I've never really been settled. I don't think I've ever known what it was like to be a person that was used to sitting still. I think it's given me the ability to detach from any situation.
When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.
When we detach the Word of God from the heart of God, we miss the point of God.
Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.
The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.
Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.
I think photography is so hard. To be working in video and photography the past 20 years - because I was doing it in high school - you're dealing with mediums that change culture. The way they are distributed, disseminated - it's changed so dramatically. One of the things I always like to do is look at the structure of something and detach myself from the structure and figure out how to slightly alter it. So if the structure itself is constantly liquidated, it just really is difficult for me to really even know what to think of Instagram.
There's something nearly mystical about certain words and phrases that float through our lives. It's computer mysticism. Words that are computer generated to be used on products that might be sold anywhere from Japan to Denmark - words devised to be pronounceable in a hundred languages. And when you detach one of these words from the product it was designed to serve, the words acquires a chantlike quality.
detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.
