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miete ("thought") + lause ("phrase")
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A sign of attachment is how you handle bad news. If bad news changes your emotional state or what you think of yourself, then you'll be attached to the outcome you receive. The alternative is to ask, "Isn't that interesting?" Learn what you can learn; then move on.
page: 178
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attachment
bad news
Attachment to an outcome combined with the resistance and fear of change are the two reasons seeing the future is so difficult. If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.
page: 178
tags:
attachment
fear
safety
comfort
horizontal axis: passion (passive - to passionate +); vertical axis: attachment (attachment - to discernment +j). Q1: Linchpin, Q2: Bureaucrat, Q3: Whiner, Q4: Fundamentalist Zealot. One axis asks 'Can you see it?' the other asks 'Do you care?'
page: 181
tags:
discernment
passion
attachment
Artists can't get attached to the object of their attention. The attachment to a worldview changes an artist's relationship to what's happening and prevents him from converting what he sees or interacts with into something that belongs to him, that he can work with and change.
page: 184
tags:
attachment
worldview
The stressful part is hoping. Hoping that the future will be what you wish it to be. The reason is your nostalgia for the future. You've fallen in love with a desired outcome. You're attached.
page: 204
tags:
stress
hope
nostalgia
attachment