Desire nothing, and you’re content with everything. Pursue things, and you’re thwarted at every turn. Ryokan 1758-1831, Japanese Zen Master, Poet, Calligrapher

Much of our inner turbulence reflects the fear of loss: our dependence on people, circumstances, and things not really under our control. On some level we know that death, indifference, rejection, repossession, or high tide may leave us bereft in the morning. Still, we clutch desperately at things we cannot finally hold. Nonattachment is the most realistic of attitudes. It is freedom from wishful thinking, from always wanting things to be otherwise.
Marilyn Ferguson

From the moment that a man no longer responds in the slightest to the motives that regulate the material world, that world appears to be at complete repose. Yukio Mishima 1935-1970,

To become free of attachment means to break the link identifying you with your desires. The desires continue: They are part of the dance of nature. But a renunciate no longer thinks that he is his desires. Ram Dass

To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.

Shunryu Suzuki 1905-1971, Japanese Zen Master