Quotes About Letting go

As I reflect on this reality, it is clear that God is present in the events of my life, yet I act and speak as if I am in control. But

I need no longer always manage and muster support for my "cause.

For as long as you can remember, you have been a pleaser, depending on others to give you an identity. You need not look at that only in a negative way. You wanted to give your heart to others, and you did so quickly and easily. But now you are being asked to let go of all these self-made props and trust that God is enough for you. You must stop being a pleaser and reclaim your identity as a free self.

You have come to realize that you must leave it (the old country) and enter the new country, where your Beloved dwells. You know that what helped and guided you in the old country no longer works, but what else do you have to go by? You are being asked to trust that you will find what you need in the new country. That requires the death of what has become so precious to you: influence, success, yes, even affection and praise.

One of the most beautiful things is that when we let the enemy go out of our heart by love and forgiveness, we are suddenly free to let that unlimited, all-embracing love of God pour into us. We become a new person every time we forgive an enemy, because we let go of the angry person inside who was holding on to fear.

It is hard to forget that which it is worse than useless to remember.

The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish his labor with every day, relinquishing all claim to the produce of his fields, and sacrificing in his mind not only his first but his last fruits also.

Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.

When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it,or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. I am very certain now that, as I said therein, if I truly become what I wish to be, the burden will fall away. The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing.

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

I know what the great cure is: to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world.

The tears were streaming down his face. He made no effort to brush them away. He just let everything gush forth. Jesus, I thought to myself, that's fine to have a release like that. Fine to be a complete coward at least once in your life. To let go that way.

Las cosas ocurren o no ocurren, y nada más. Nada se realiza mediante el sudor y los esfuerzos. Casi todo lo que llamamos vida es simplemente insomnio, una agonía porque hemos perdido las costumbre de quedarnos dormidos. No sabemos dejarnos llevar. Somos como un muñeco de una caja de sorpresas colocado sobre un resorte y cuanto más esfuerzos hacemos más difícil es volver a la caja.

Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead. Philippians 3:13

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act,--act in the living present! Heart within, and God o'erhead!

I will forget her! All dear recollections Pressed in my heart, like flowers within a book, Shall be torn out, and scattered to the winds!

I forgave the DAR many years ago. You lose a lot of time hating people.

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

If you dwell on yesterday, man, you're never gonna see tomorrow clearly.

I'm a take-me-as-l-am person, and all the rest is water under the bridge. You can't change yesterday any more than you can predict what's gonna happen tomorrow.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may be for us and it may not.

If I keep thinking about yesterday, tomorrow might never come.