Quotes About Letting go

So our practice is not to eliminate our delusion, but to see or to become aware of the fact that we are deluded. Just become aware of it and let go of it. Do not be pulled by the delusions.

When I have to struggle seeking after something, When I feel loneliness in helpless solitude, When I am in despair of myself —These are all thoughts of ourselves. Leave everything to zazen, letting go of thought, Or to single-minded chanting of the sound that sees the -world. At this time, even though we don't know it consciously Suddenly, whatever has happened The living reality of the self that is only the self is there, Just as the big sky is always the big sky.

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember Life is too short to be little.

Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

Shut off the past! Let the dead past bury its dead. . . . Shut out the yesterdays which have lighted fools the way to dusty death. . . . The load of tomorrow, added to that of yesterday, carried today, makes the strongest falter. Shut off the future as tightly as the past. . . . The future is today. . . . There is no tomorrow.

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little.

Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

I once asked General Eisenhower's son, John, if his father ever nourished resentments. "No," he replied, "Dad never wastes a minute thinking about people he doesn't like.

When we stop fighting the inevitable," said Elsie MacCormick in a Reader's Digest article, "we release energy which enables us to create a richer life.

From that day to this, I have made it a rule to throw into the wastebasket all the problems that I can no longer do anything about.

Of course, you can't saw sawdust!" Mr Shedd exclaimed. "It's already sawed! And it's the same with the past. When you start worrying about things that are over and done with, you're merely trying to saw sawdust.

One thing I've learned in my program is that guilt is a wasted emotion, you know? Look back on the past but don't stare.

The key to serenity is forgiveness.

The key to peace within my soul, he said, was to cast aside my bitterness and resentment

Look to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of ere, and that garbage is weighing you down.

Look to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.

Debo dejar los asuntos molestos en manos de personas objetivas.

Letting her go freed me. The dog of my heart didn't want that freedom but my soul, whatever that is, yearned for it. I was that tiny ant, mindlessly repeating the mantra of life

Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Think about every single person who has ever harmed you, cheated you, defrauded you, or said unkind things about you. Your experience of them is nothing more than a thought that you carry around with you. These thoughts of resentment, anger, and hatred represent slow, debilitating energies that will disempower you. If you could release them, you would know more peace.

There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is yesterday…and the other day I do not worry about is tomorrow.

The things we love we have to learn to leave alone.