Quotes About Letting go

You get to a place where you begin to be guided by something greater than yourself. You stop fighting and striving (indeed the need to expend this type of energy is often a strong indicator that you are not in flow and where you are meant to be) and instead, surrender to your higher purpose and be guided from there, allowing things to happen, trusting in source, focusing on your why and letting go of the how...

Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change.

Relax, let go, allow, and recognize that some of your desires are about how you think your world should be, rather than how it is in that moment. Become an astute observer . . . judge less and listen more.

Your attachments are the source of all your problems. The need to be right, to possess someone or something, to win at all costs, to be viewed by others as superior—these are all attachments. The open mind resists these attachments and consequently experiences inner peace and success. To release attachments, you have to make a shift in how you

Guilt is the most useless of all erroneous zone behaviors. It is by far the greatest waste of emotional energy. Why? Because, by definition, you are feeling immobilized in the present over something that has already taken place, and no amount of guilt can ever change history.

you must be empty in order to become filled

giving more, arguing less, and releasing your attachment to everything

Quit accumulating points for being right!

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And yes, you have a future, but not now!

Let go of wondering about doing the right thing.

Why would they use up their precious moments for living by worrying about something they can't do anything about?

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.

Let the world unfold without always attempting to figure it all out. Let relationships just be, for example, since everything is going to stretch out in Divine order. Don't try so hard to make something work—simply allow.

shed your troublesome ego while you're still alive

Rumi observed, "Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment.

In all of your relationships, if you can love someone enough to allow them to be exactly what they choose to be—without any expectations or attachments from you—you'll know true peace in your lifetime. True love means you love a person for what they are, not for what you think they should be. This is an open mind—and an absence of attachment.

Think of the need to control as a signal to allow

true mastery can only be gained by freeing yourself of attachments to things

release the need to control your life.

Permit the paradox of wanting the irritant to vanish and allowing it to be what it is. Look inward for it in your thoughts and allow yourself to feel it wherever it is and however it moves in your body.

let go of any ideas you have about controlling anything or anyone, including yourself.

you get it by letting go.

free your mind from its persistent nagging.

Living by Natural Law This verse speaks of a natural law that's unaffected by ego. The message? You're not in charge—you never have been, and you never will be. So you're advised to let go of any ideas you have about controlling anything or anyone, including yourself.