DETACHMENT

There is but one thing to do to purify our hearts, to detach ourselves from creatures, and abandon ourselves entirely to God.

Jean Pierre de Caussade

Keep yourself detached from all mankind; keep yourself devoid of all incoming images; emancipate yourself from everything which entails addition, attachment or encumbrance, and focus your mind at all times on the saving contemplation of God. Carry him within your heart as the fixed object from which your eyes never waver.

Meister Eckhart

The poor in spirit (Matthew 5:3) have no attachment to the things that are present, nor are they even in thought passionately involved with them, not even to the extent of simple enjoyment.

Symeon the New Theologian