love without attachment

"If you love a flower, don't pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies, and it ceases to be what you love. So, if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession; love is about appreciation." - Osho

Listening to this is eye opening. It’s cruel to love someone for what you make of them. It’s cruel to imprison someone in your idealism. It’s cruel to hate yourself so much that you need someone to save you from it.

" we do not feel secure in ourselves and so we attempt to own and dominate another in order to regain some security" hits so hard.

Really scary how these videos drop whenever you need em

One time on tumblr I saw someone say something that really stuck with me: “calling my lover "mine" but not in the way that my toothbrush or notebook are mine, mine in the way my neighborhood is mine, and also everybody else's, "mine" like mine to tend to, mine to care for, mine to love. "mine" not like possession but devotion.” Edit: War in the comments!! People are arguing a lot about the neighborhood comparison, and so I thought maybe you can think of it in the way that your neighborhood is yours but you also have an individual house. We each have a neighborhood within ourselves of who we love and how, informing how we decorate the interior, as each house is unique yet all part of the whole which is taken care of by everyone. Tbh maybe even that moves away from the intent of then original post, so I’d also say it’s more like renting a house than owning one.

“Passion comes through learning rather than through desire or gratification” “Listen without judgement, love without attachment”

"Sometimes to love someone, you gotta be a stranger." I adore and despise the truth in this quote.

Loving someone through attachment at first, and then realizing you truly do love them as they are, once you lose them, is one hell of an emotional roller coaster.

The hardest thing I've had to learn is that no matter how important someone is to you, you cannot expect them to view you the same way. How to move on from this is something I'm still learning

This couldn’t have come at a better time, it’s hard loving someone who you know isn’t there to stay forever 💔

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

The amount of maturity and understanding it takes to truly love someone is so great that I'm surprised anyone ever achieves it

I've told myself, "I'll never love this deeply again," three times now. The thought of saying it again isn't the soul-crushing exercise it used to be.

Love does not control, it yields. It gives freedom and does not restrict...

Moving on from a love lost is so difficult when she was the only person you’ve ever had to actually show you that kind of love. When you’ve been so alone your whole life. I’ll always love her. I’m trying to let her go but it’s just so painful.

I understand the need for boundaries in a relationship. Though at times it does get hard knowing that the person you love could leave at any time, I think learning to let go will be just as hard yet important as the process of building the relationship to start.

To love without attachment, is to be vulnerable to the things you fear, to allow yourself to be vulnerable to the inevitable

sometimes it’s hard to watch a sisyphus video because he drops so many golden bars back to back you don’t have time to process the first one

It's unfortunate, everyone is trying not to get hurt but only ends up hurting people they love or themselves...it's hard to be vulnerable but when we are it eases the pain

"To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow" -Tiknot Han This Is an incredible quote, I like It A LOT!