Attachment is your biggest strength and your biggest weakness.

Hear the words of the seeker, Shahid Kapoor, who uttered with sincerity: “Attachment is your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. Though it gives you the power to love someone more than yourself, it becomes difficult to live when you lose something you are attached to. Even when we have lost, we should go beyond that and get truly attached to someone. Loving someone truly is the most beautiful feeling.” These words carry the fragrance of paradox, the eternal truth that what empowers the heart may also wound it, and yet, within this tension lies the most profound beauty of human life.

The meaning is this: attachment is both a fire and a chain. It can lift the soul to heights of devotion, granting the strength to sacrifice, to give, to live for another more than for oneself. But it can also pierce the heart, for the more deeply one clings, the more unbearable the loss when that bond is severed. Love is both the wine that enlivens and the poison that can break. Yet Kapoor teaches us that even in loss, the answer is not to harden or to withdraw, but to rise again, to give the heart once more, and to embrace the beauty of true love.

The ancients knew this truth well. Consider the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. Orpheus loved with such intensity that he braved the very underworld to reclaim his beloved. His attachment gave him courage, strength, and music that softened even the heart of Hades. Yet that same attachment brought him anguish when, glancing back, he lost her forever. Did his love weaken him? No—it revealed both the glory and the pain of being human. It showed that the soul is never more alive than when bound by love, even at the risk of sorrow.

History also offers us the example of Mahatma Gandhi, who was deeply attached not to one person, but to his people. This attachment gave him the strength to endure prison, hunger, and humiliation. It lifted him beyond the concerns of self and allowed him to sacrifice all for the freedom of India. Yet this same attachment brought him wounds, for he carried within him the suffering of millions, and his heart bore the grief of division. Still, he did not retreat from love. He poured himself out for others, proving that even when attachment breaks the heart, it also ennobles the spirit.

Kapoor’s words strike at the center of what it means to live: to love deeply is to risk deeply, but to avoid risk is to live half a life. Attachment is dangerous, yes, for it makes us vulnerable to loss, but it is also our greatest strength, for it allows us to transcend selfishness. The one who avoids attachment may avoid pain, but he also avoids the highest joy. True living requires courage—not the courage of the sword, but the courage of the heart, which dares to give itself fully to another.

The lesson for us is clear: do not fear loss so much that you deny yourself the fullness of love. When something or someone dear is taken, grieve, but do not let grief close the gates of your heart. Open them again, even wider, and let love flow once more. The path of life is not about avoiding wounds, but about allowing wounds to deepen our humanity and make us more capable of love. True love is the most beautiful feeling, not because it is safe, but because it is costly, fragile, and eternal in its power.

Therefore, children of tomorrow, cultivate attachment wisely. Do not attach yourself to fleeting pleasures or possessions, for they will surely leave you empty. Attach yourself to people, to causes, to truths that endure. When you lose, do not grow bitter; when you gain, do not grow possessive. Instead, let your heart expand. Love again and again, for each act of love draws you closer to the divine.

For remember this: the river flows though it loses drops to the earth, and still it moves on, swelling stronger. So too must your heart flow—through joy, through loss, through love, through grief. In this rhythm lies the secret of life: attachment is both strength and weakness, but in its fire, the soul is made alive. Love truly, love deeply, and you will touch the most beautiful truth of all.