Abhorrence Quotes

“When you love someone, you end up caring about each and every person they love. When you hate someone, you end up caring about every single person who hates them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The human soul is a madhouse of the grotesque. If a soul were able to reveal itself truthfully, if its shame and modesty didn't run deeper than all its known and named ignominies, then it would be--as is said of truth--a well, but a sinister well full of murky echoes and inhabited by abhorrent creatures, slimy non-beings, lifeless slugs, the snot of subjectivity.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Idolatry is not only excessive reverence, but also excessive abhorrence - that other side of the coin which runs the risk of establishing a false gospel under the implication that, for example, if you hate this certain individual, you're a good person no matter what; or if you love this certain individual, you're a bad person no matter what.”
― Criss Jami

“It is considered equanimity when attachment does not arise towards someone who offers flowers and abhorrence does not arise towards someone who is pelting stones.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“The mind doesn’t harass you; your attachment-abhorrence harasses you!”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Awareness (of the Self) prevails in matters where one becomes attachment-free (vitrag), and where one has attachment-abhorrence, there his awareness will not prevail.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Abhorrence is the cause for conflicts. God has said, ‘Do no abhorrence. If you don’t like it, ignore it’.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Causes for attachment are created at the very time abhorrence occurs. Familiarity (acquaintance) up to a certain point will result in attachment and if it reaches ‘ridge point’ & goes past further, it will result in abhorrence.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Once an opinion is formed, there will be attachment-abhorrence. A person without opinion is also without attachment-abhorrence.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Physical pleasures are not associated with attachment-abhorrence; the belief in an opinion itself is attachment-abhorrence.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Prakruti [the relative self, innate nature] has opinions and may store them but we should stay in an opinion-free state. ‘We’ are separate and the relative self is separate from us. ‘We’ should play our part as a separate entity. We shouldn’t get involved with those problems.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Mungu ni mtakatifu na kwa maana hiyo hatendi dhambi. Hivyo, hauwi wala hatesi. Tunajiua na kujitesa wenyewe. Ametupa hiari ya kuchagua mema au mabaya. Lakini anamtumia Shetani kama wakala wake wa kutoa adhabu kwa binadamu pale tunapoenenda sawasawa na machukizo yake. Damu ina nguvu kuliko Shetani na ina nguvu kuliko kuzimu. Unapojifunika kwa damu ya Mwanakondoo, Shetani hataweza kukuona. Hivyo, hataweza kukudhuru. Lakini usipojifunika kwa damu ya Mwanakondoo, Shetani atakuona. Hivyo, atakudhuru. Atakudhuru kwa sababu Mungu atakuwa ameruhusu akudhuru, kwa sababu ya uhuru wa kuchagua mema au mabaya aliotupatia, ijapokuwa ana uwezo wa kuzuia asikudhuru. Kwa mtindo huo Mungu anakuwa ametoa adhabu kwa binadamu.”
― Enock Maregesi

“If you want liberation [moksha], you will have to be rid of the duality of ‘right-and-wrong’. If you want to attain an auspicious (good) state, then have abhorrence for the ‘wrong’, and attachment for the ‘right’. There is no attachment or abhorrence in the pure state [shuddha].”
― Dada Bhagwan

“The whole world is indeed trapped by misery. What is the misery about? Due to ignorance of one’s own Real Self (agnanta). Due to ignorance of one’s own Real Self (agnanta), attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh) keeps on occuring, which leads to this misery. Only through Gnan [Knowledge of the Real Self] can one prevail in a misery-free state. There is no other solution at all.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“The absolutely detached Lord has said, "The one who does not have abhorrence (dwesh) or love (prem) over both, bad deeds (paap) and good deeds (punya) is absolutely free from attachment and abhorrence (vitaraag)!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Who Am I?

“Despite knowing and seeing through the senses, if one remains free from attachment-abhorrence, it is called knowledge beyond the senses (atindriya-gnan). But if one has attachment-abhorrence, then one is seeing and knowing through the knowledge of the senses (indriya-gnan).”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Guru and The Disciple

“There should not be attachment to what is liked and there should be no abhorrence to what is disliked. Like and dislike are mind’s functions; it is not ‘Our’ (Self) function.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Avoid Clashes!

“In this world, there is nothing that ‘I’ like, nor is there anything that ‘I’, dislike!”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Essence Of All Religion

“If you learn to like, what you dislike, you will find the solution.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Fault is of the Sufferer

“Like-dislike is a ‘discharge moha’ (illusory attachment that is dissipating and not binding new karma), while attachment-abhorrence is a ‘charge moha’ (illusory attachment that binds new karma).”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“Where the attachment and abhorrence does not occur is cosidered to be the path of moksha (ultimate liberation).”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“Continue with whatever it is that you have been doing, except for attachment-abhorrence. If ‘we’ stay in our state of Pure Soul, attachment-abhorrence will not occur.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“Where there is no attachment for the good and abhorrence for the bad is called the state of equanimity. The one without duality is equanimity. In worldly interactions, people identify tolerance as equanimity!”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“Equanimity is when abhorrence does not arise during the circumstances of abhorrence and attachment does arise during the circumstances of attachment.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“In whatever work that you do in this world, the work has no value. You will be ‘binding responsibility’ for next life only if there is attachment and abhorrence involved in it. There is no responsibility if the attachment and abhorrence do not occur.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“The foundation of sansar (worldly life) is made up of attachment and abhorrence, and the foundation of Gnan (knowledge of the Self) is made up of Vitaraagata (total absence of attachment and abhorrence)!”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“In unfavorable circumstances, kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) occur, and in favorable circumstances, more kashays occur. However, the kashays of favorable circumstances are cold. Those are raag kashays (attachment kashays) and they include greed and deceit. Whereas, in unfavorable circumstances, there are dwesh kashays (abhorrence kashays) such as anger and pride.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“Abhorrence is the cause for conflicts. God has said, “Do not have abhorrence. If you don’t like it, ignore it.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“Causes for attachment are formed at the same time that abhorrence is occurring. Acquaintance up to a certain point will result in attachment and if it reaches ‘ridge point’ and goes past further; it will result in abhorrence.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“My romantic nature I’ve come to abhor.”
― Frances Woodard, Strings Of Fate