It has been said that the highest wisdom lies in detachment, or in the words of Chuang-tzu: "The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror; it grasps nothing; it refuses nothing; it receives, but does not keep." Detachment means to have neither regrets for the past nor fears for the future; to let life take its course without attempting to interfere with its movement and change, neither trying to prolong the stay of things pleasant nor to hasten the departure of things unpleasant. To do this is to move in time with life, to be in perfect accord with its changing music...In short, it is to be detached from both past and future and to live in the eternal Now. For in truth neither past nor future have any existence apart from this Now; by themselves they are illusions. Life exists only at this moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal. For the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it persists for ever...
Alan Watts, "Become What You Are"
"To ask security for tomorrow means to remain in constant fear. Security is not possible, so...with desire for security in the future you are destroying the present, which is the only life available."
-Osho
"As we follow the Tao, one lesson appears again and again: trust the process...we can learn to flow...We must release our need to control the outcome. We can only do our best, then trust the evolving cycles...Letting go of our attachment to the outcome dispels our fear of failure, for success and failure are polarities that emerge when we try to control things. The Tao transcends polarities. Trusting the process, we evolve beyond old definitions, open to a new insight..."
Diane Dreher, "The Tao of Inner Peace"
"When you don't need a person at all, when you are totally sufficient unto yourself, when you can be alone and tremendously happy and ecstatic, then love is possible. But then too you cannot be certain whether the OTHER'S love is real or not -- you can be certain about only one thing: whether your love is real. How can you be certain about the other? But then there is no need.
This continuous anxiety -- whether the other's love is real or not -- simply shows one thing: that your love is not real. Otherwise, who bothers? Why be worried about it? Enjoy it while it lasts! Be together while you can be together! ... One day when you are really awake you will be able to love -- but then you will be certain about your love only. But that's enough! Who bothers? Because right now you want to use others. When you are really blissful on your own, you don't want to use anybody. You simply want to share. You have so much, so much is overflowing, you would like somebody to share it. And you will feel thankful that somebody was ready to receive. Finished! That is the full point."
-Osho
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