The Lexicon
The heart qualities
Detachment
Detachment is the freedom of the heart that loves without clinging, acts without grasping at the fruit. It is the loosening of the desperate grip on outcomes, possessions, and self-image, so that one can move through the world unburdened. Far from coldness, true detachment is the condition of a deeper, freer love, no longer tangled in need.
Carried by 7 teachers · across 4 traditions · 3 quotes
The Gita teaches action without attachment to results; the Christian mystics walk the way of nada, the dark night that strips away every false support; the New Thought student impresses the desire upon the subconscious and then releases it. To practice detachment is to hold all things lightly, to let them come and go like clouds, and to rest in the unchanging awareness through which they pass.
In their words
You have a right to your actions, but never to your actions' fruits.Bhagavad Gita 2:47
The greatest and most necessary knowledge of all is that of self-detachment, which is to say a perfect renunciation of self.Meister Eckhart
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.Lao Tzu (attributed)