To detach from your desires may be to withdraw from life itself.

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Detachment promises serenity: to expect nothing more from what does not depend on us is to be no longer wounded by its loss.
But what binds us to the world is precisely desire: to love, to hope, to commit, is to hold to things one can lose. To cut away this attachment in order to protect oneself is to risk no longer loving anything enough to suffer from it, hence no longer truly loving.
The peace thus gained might then resemble an absence: not the fullness of the sage, but the lukewarmness of one who has put himself out of reach by withdrawing from everything.

Therefore So detachment, pushed to the end, threatens to confuse serenity with indifference, and liberation with the renunciation of living.

Deepenings

Serenity or indifference?

The distinguished , freedom from the troubling passions, from insensibility: the sage is not made of stone, he loves and acts, but without being the slave of what he loves.
The objection asks whether this distinction holds in practice: can one really hold to someone while staying ready to lose them unshaken, or does detachment always end up cooling what it is applied to?

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