Quotes About Letting go

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

We should not attach to some fancy ideas or to some beautiful things. We should not seek for something good. The truth is always near at hand, within your reach.

To die is more important than trying to be alive. When we try to be alive, we have trouble. Rather than trying to be alive or active, if we can be calm and die or fade away into emptiness, then naturally we will be all right.

The true purpose is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

A mind full of preconceived ideas, subjective intentions, or habits is not open to things as they are. That is why we practice zazen: to clear our mind of what is related to something else.

When you are practicing zazen, do not try to stop your thinking. Let it stop by itself. If something comes into your mind, let it come in, and let it go out. It will not stay long. When you try to stop your thinking, it means you are bothered by it. Do not be bothered by anything.

It is necessary to remember what we have done, but we should not become attached to what we have done in some special sense.

But as long as you think you are practicing zazen for the sake of something, that is not true practice.

It's the damnedest thing: The dead abandon you; then, with the passage of time, you abandon the dead.

There is nothing more critical than to exercise the generosity to let something end with the grace it started with.

If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.

Forgiveness is the easiest thing in the world, Justin thinks. All you do is just decide to do it, and then it's done. Instantly you feel better, like pushing aside a quilt that is too heavy for sleeping. Forgetting is the hard part.

Learn how to forgive others, including yourself.

When you need to lose control, to let go, to fall apart, I'll give you that. And I'll catch you afterwards. But if you need to be the one in charge, I'll give you that too.

Never get attached to possessions…. They're just things and you can always get more things.

When somebody leaves this plane—or, if you like, goes into another room—those left behind sometimes try and stop loving—but this is a mistake, because even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.

My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go. My heart... not so much.

There's a point when you have to stop fightin' the whole world.

He may be out of my life physically, but he'll always be a part of me. I can't let him go even if I tried. Alex took a piece of my heart, but that doesn't mean my life has to be on hold. I can't keep running after ghosts.

If you let him go and he doesn't come back to you, he wasn't yours to begin with. It's a lesson learned in first grade

Sometimes things are better off forgotten.

Cómo me gustaría poder retroceder al año pasado y empezar de nuevo. La vida no te permite hacer eso. No es posible borrar el pasado, pero voy a tratar de hacer que otras personas lo olviden.

At this very moment I have left my grief at the bottom of the river. It is going downstream, and will enshroud another heart than mine. Talk to me about life, Grandmother. Talk to me about that.

Build courage and let go of something that troubles you and you'll have inner peace.