"I don't mean to deny human attachments," he said.

Happiness is tinged with that peculiar human attachment to misery.

Konrad Lorenz had examined the phenomenon of "imprinting" and felt that it might have some parallels to human attachment.

But, of course, the Greeks included that most elusive of human attachments - a soul, or spirit - in their discussion of what was "natural."

Improving xinxing means relinquishing human attachments, which prevent people from awakening.

Ownby says that Li urges practitioners to abandon human attachments not for achieving selfish ends, but "quite the contrary.

The coming decades promise a better understanding of how oxytocin, vasopressin, and dopamine function in human attachment.

He did not apply the imprinting concept in its entirety to human attachment.

You have freed me from all human attachments.

But I am trying to emphasize the importance of human attachments.