“The more attachment you lose along the way, the closer you are to finding yourself?
Walter Riso
- The consumer society transforms everything that is considered incidental into something necessary and.
- The latter.
- Urgent and rare.
- Products.
- Ideas and lifestyles are sold to the public.
We may feel attachment by people, animals or personal objects of some sentimental value, but attachment is not only that, attachment can also refer to acceptance of our own beliefs or certain ways of doing things, creating discomfort when we are upset. attachment limits us, often causing situations of suffering and transforming the way we see the world.
Attachment is based on our fear and insecurity and, the latter, on the disrecognise of our “I”.
Therefore, attachment would be a state of emotional attachment, in some cases, compulsive to a certain thing, person or thought that sometimes generates the persistent belief that it is impossible to live or be happy without it. But happiness is not what surrounds us, nor what we can become attached to. Happiness grows from the inside out, often hidden behind the thoughts of our mind.
Detachment allows us to relate to everything, but without causing pain and suffering, it is to abandon our interest in the result, without giving up intention or desire, immersing ourselves in the unknown, entering the field of all possibilities.
Detachment involves living in the present, in the here and now, accepting reality and facts as they occur. It’s about enjoying things, knowing that they’re transient, that they don’t stay, or they’re not static. Everything around us changes, including the way we are, based on the experiences we have.
Practicing detachment does not mean that we stop worrying, but that we learn to love, care and engage without creating deep inner chaos, forgetting the need to have something to be happy.
To practice detachment is the way of our freedom, to let others also be free, is to free ourselves from rigidity, to open the way to flexibility and possibilities, to let go is to begin to discover oneself, without the obstacle of security and certainty.
Detachment involves understanding that losses will occur and will be inevitable. Let go of the hand of those we love, but still love it.
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