Detachment

Detachment, as we know from spiritual books, is a rare and high spiritual virtue…..To be detached is to be loosened from every tie which binds the soul to the earth, to be dependent on nothing sublunary, to lean on nothing temporal; it is to care simply nothing what other men choose to think or say of us, or do to us; to go about our work, because it is our duty, as soldiers to go to battle, without a care for the consequences; to account credit, honor, name,easy circumstances, comfort human affectation, (as) just nothing at all, when any religious obligation involves the sacrifices of them. It is to be reckless of all these goods of life on occasions.

-Cardinal Henry Newman