Quotes About Letting go

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember. Think of the vine that curls from the small square plot that was once my heart. That is the only marker you need. Move on. Walk forward into the light.

To go in search of what once was is to postpone the difficulty of living with what is.

Do not return to what you have vomited to eat it.

there's no sense worrying about what you can't control. Doing that is a good way to go crazy.

It's hard to let go. Even when what you're holding onto is full of thorns

There is nothing to be gained from regret," said Mrs Steadman. "The question is where do you go from here?

So we forgive. We send away the wrongs done to us. We let people out of the little cages we keep them in while we enjoy our feelings of moral superiority. We hand the feelings of wrong to God and refuse to ever take them back. Then we shut up and never mention the matter again. When the time comes, we put our arm around the offender and we ask him how he is.

The solution is to forgive, to let go of the bait in that trap and pull yourself free.

It is time to let them go. Open the cages, tell them you're sorry, forgive them as Jesus forgave you, and burn that trophy room to the ground.

The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings. He knows that he is going to die, and he has nothing left to hold on to: no illusions in his mind, no resistances in his body. He doesn't think about his actions; they flow from the core of his being. He holds nothing back from life; therefore he is ready for death, as a man is ready for sleep after a good day's work.

So if you are thinking, words are very bad. But if you are not thinking, all words and all things that you can see or hear or smell or taste or touch will help you. So it is very important for you to cut off your thinking and your attachment to words.

If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.

The less we cling to one side of reality—betting on either or or, arguing for for or against—the more we can be aware of the exquisite counterpoint of things. Everything matters: how we vote, how we tie our shoelaces, how we respond to the faintest whisper of a thought. And nothing matters, because (look!) it's already gone. When we understand this, we're home free.

Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised.

Let the past bury its dead.  Easier said than done.

I was at a Byron Katie seminar once when I heard her say something I never forgot. She said, "Do you know what I love most about the past? It's over!

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~ Joseph Campbell

Buddhist writings (including this book) can be likened to a raft. A raft is a very handy thing to carry you across the water, from one shore to another. But once you've reached the other shore, you no longer need the raft. Indeed, if you wish to continue your journey beyond the shore, you must leave the raft behind. Our problem is that we tend to fall in love with the raft.

this desire to hold on, to somehow stop change in its tracks, is the greatest source of woe and horror and trouble in our lives.

T]houghts will arise. Don't be bothered by them. Don't think they're bad or that you shouldn't be having them. … If you leave them alone, they'll depart of their own accord. This is how to 'cease all movements of the conscious mind.' You cannot do it by the direct application of your will.

In psychoanalysis, you try to retain a discovery; in art, once the thing is made, you let it go.

Letting go of the conventional wisdoms that torment us. Letting go of the artificial limits that hold us back—and of the fear of admitting what we don't know. Letting go of the habits of mind that tell us to kick into the corner of the goal even though we stand a better chance by going up the middle.

The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow.

I let go of all I no longer love, need, or use. I adore space.