Aversion Quotes

If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate ‘me,’ and in turn the sense of ‘me’ strengthens itself this way.

When we accept life as it is, we can respond appropriately to the way we’re experiencing it, rather than just reacting out of fear and aversion.

If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

The problem is grasping the clock. So what do I do? Let it go, lay it aside – put it down gently without any kind of aversion. Then I can pick it up again, see what time it is and lay it aside when necessary.

Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?