Attachment is the failure to see that everything comes from the mind. Once one sees one's own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose.

Attachment is a source of pain. We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.

Attachment is a vain enterprise. A flower falls no matter how much we love it, just as a weed grows no matter how much we do not love it.

Attachment is broken by bringing benefit to others while gaining nothing for oneself.

Belonging is sometimes necessary to achieving one's goals. Sometimes you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

Belonging is necessary for growth. We must all belong to something before we are anything.

Belonging is always also about entering into a common bond of guilt, of guilt and of inevitable compromise.

Belonging is a desire, partly a desire to lose ourselves.

Citizenship is the right to have rights.

Citizenship is what makes a republic: Monarchies can get along without it.

Citizenship is a kind of trained political intimacy that turns political boundaries into visceral, emotional, and seemingly hardwired responses of 'insiders' to 'outsiders'.

Citizenship is engendered in local communities through churches, schools, and other institutions that involve face-to-face social participation.

Community is gathering around a fire and listening to someone tell a story.

Community is, as the very heart of civilization, the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a semblance of responsibility for his brother.

Community is grounded in this idea — It is your concern when the wall next door is on fire.

Community is grounded in dialogue — it comes as a result of folks talking 'to' one another instead of 'about'.