Quotes About Letting go

It is no good wishing for what was not to be.

Let go, he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. No, not of me, he said, smiling. You can hold on to me as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie. Let go. You need to drift away. It was the first time I had relinquished my will to someone else. As I looked at him, it became easy, and I retreated from the suffering and uncertainty of this strange place.

Should I just bite you, and end it all?, he whispered. I would never have to think about you again. Thinking about you is an annoying habit and one I want to be rid of.

What I think I'll do is I'll do my best to yank Debbie out of me by the roots. And then I'll turn up on your doorstep, one day when you least expect it, and I'll hope by then you will have given up on your vampire.

You can hold on to me for as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie. - Eric, Club dead.

Those things don't matter. You had no control over your past

I got rid of my place in L.A. I had this beautiful condo in Taluca Lake, but I was like, 'Why am I paying for this when I'm all over?'

Whatever's in front of you, you do the best you can and let it land where it lands, and then you walk away.

I don't keep a lot of memorabilia around.

I don't hoard things and I don't cling to memories.

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.

You have to have a short memory as a closer.

We carry our past sorrows and anger and they become a kind of baggage that makes life heavy.

Fear is an element that prevents us from letting go. We're fearful that if we let go we'll have nothing else to cling to.

Al inhalar, contemplo cómo lo abandono. Al exhalar, siento la dicha de abandonarlo. (Contemplando cómo lo abandono. Dicha.)

Most of us walk without chains, yet we aren't free. We're tethered to regret and sorrow from the past. We return to the past and continue to suffer. The past is a prison. But now you have the key to unlock the door and arrive in the present moment. You breathe in, you bring your mind home to your body, you make a step, and you arrive in the here and the

The past is no longer a prison for me. The future is not a prison either. I am able to live in the here and now and

It is not impermamence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permament when they are not.

Don't make a great effort, or struggle, or fight as you sit. Let go of everything. This prevents backache, shoulder-ache, or headache. If you are able to find a cushion that fits your body well, you can sit for a long time without feeling tired.

We need to stop running after things, because even if we get the object of our desire, we won't be happy and we'll want to run after another one.

If you sit regularly, it will become a habit. You will let go of trying to arrive anywhere. Even the Buddha still practiced sitting every day after his enlightenment. There is nowhere to arrive except the present moment.

Once a seed has been burnt, it cannot sprout anymore. If we are able to burn up the seeds of grief, sexual desire, and hatred, they will not sprout again.

Our tendency is to think that if we let go, we'll lose the things that make us happy. But the opposite is true. The more we let go, the happier we become.

We are in nirv??a. The only problem is that we are not able to return to it.