Quotes About Letting go

Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.

I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.

Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice.

You can't control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it'll be okay anyway.

My core message is that God has got a good plan for your lives, and we must trust Him, and let go of the past. That's my main message.

When you make a record, you probably are not going to hit exactly what you were aiming for. You also have to let go at a certain point, and just trust it.

There are two ways of thinking. One is living life based on fear. The other is trusting. Letting go and allowing trust to control our lives takes mental gymnastics.

Sometimes all we have to do is to trust. Let go of things is an easy job but to stay with a strong heart full of trust is even much more important then all .

In order to grow you have to let go of all that you are and all that you know.

I have trouble with letting go. That's my problem. Anybody that has extreme highs and extreme lows is bipolar to any psychologist and that's not necessarily the truth.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.

There's only so much room in one heart. You can fill it up with love or you can fill it with resentment. But every bit of resentment you hold takes space away from the love. And the resentment don't do no good noway, but look what love can do.

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.

I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead.

We have the here and now," Ryan said. "In the end, that's all any of us have. The past is over, if not forgotten, and hating's a waste of time and energy. The future's out there, and the way it goes depends on what we do today. Maggie taught me that.

As the bride lets go of her singlehood identity, she prepares an internal space where her new identity as wife will eventually bloom.

The feeling of love remains until we forget about the other.

Shikantaza is not a practice carried out by the individual. It is, rather, a practice in which we let go of the individual karmic self that is constantly seeking to satisfy its own desires.

People often ask me, "What is the S?t? Zen view of rebirth?" This is a difficult question because D?gen Zenji, I believe, advocates "not knowing" in this case. Rather than offering us a consistent view on rebirth, he teaches that we should let go of our limiting concepts and beliefs and simply practice right here, right now.

in order to move forward you have to stop looking back!

Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas.