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"Take any emotion--love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. "But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, 'All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment'."
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detachment
emotions
grief
life
love
pain
truth
vulnerability
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Mitch Albom |
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It's life that matters, nothing but life--the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.
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clinging
detachment
discovery
hippolyte
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.
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change
civilization
detachment
journalism
mankind
poverty
pulitzer-prize
war
war-reporting
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David Baldacci |
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"The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment." ( )"
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critics
detachment
insight
writing
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Raymond Chandler |
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To be able to enjoy fully the many good things the world has to offer, we must be detached from them. To be detached does not mean to be indifferent or uninterested. It means to be non-possessive. Life is a gift to be grateful for and not a property to cling to. A non-possessive life is a free life. But such freedom is only possible when we have a deep sense of belonging. To whom then do we belong? We belong to God, and the God to whom we belong has sent us into the world to proclaim in his Name that all of creation is created in and by love and calls us to gratitude and joy. That is what the 'detached' life is all about. It is a life in which we are free to offer praise and thanksgiving.
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detachment
god
non-possessive
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Henri J.M. Nouwen |
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The author reveals a cultural change that took place when clergy were paid based on a tax on the land's value rather than what it produced. This meant that, while parishioners could suffer through a terrible year, clergy would always have a comfortable one.
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detachment
ministry
suffering
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Bill Bryson |
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It is not the desert island nor the stony wilderness that cuts you from the people you love. It is the wilderness in the mind, the desert wastes in the heart through which one wanders lost and a stranger.
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detachment
loneliness
lost
wilderness
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
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Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion.
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artists
compassion
detachment
involvement
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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The succession multiplied the harm. Each passed on his conception of the papacy unchanged.
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conventional-wisdom
detachment
insulation
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Barbara W. Tuchman |