“We are the things we possess, we are that to which we are attached. Attachment has nobility. Attachment to knowledge is not different from any other gratifying addiction.

“Attachment is self-absorption, whether at the lowest or the highest level. Attachment is self-deception, it is an escape from the hollowness of the self. The things to which we are attached – property, people, ideas – become all-important, for without the many things which fill its emptiness, the self is not. The fear of not being makes for possession; and fear breeds illusion.” – Krishnamurti

(J. Krishnamurti, Commentaries on Living. First Series. Bombay, etc.: B.I. Publications, 1972; c1974, 113.)