Quotes About Letting go

Before you can implement radical change, you have to let go of the things that will destine your attempts for failure, and make letting go a vital part of your culture

We are working hard to avoid living in our past," he says. Stringer recognized that the real culprit standing in the way of progress at Sony was a tradition-bound mentality and began systematically letting go of the traditions and people that had hamstrung the company.

Realizing that their best opportunities existed in wholesale distribution, the leaders proved themselves adept time and again at letting go and discarding companies and business units that no longer fit the strategic direction of the firm.

And this load we carry—the anger, the fatigue, the resentment, and the deathly sense of compromise that is bound to our backs or held tightly in our clenched fists—it will still exist, but we won't have to carry it, because it belongs to the past or the future, and that's not where we'll be. We will experience more, and it will weigh less.

Maybe—like what the guard said at the gate of the Sun Street—I should not pry open the bleeding wounds of the past. Maybe I should just try to keep my good old memories.

Así que se olvida cuando se desea olvidar, cuando ya se está listo o cuando recordar no trae placer ni consuelo y es sólo una carga que no permite dar un paso, ni respirar siquiera

Holnaptól tudatosan törekszem rá, hogy ne élÅ' teremtmény, hanem csak emlék legyen számomra, még ha jó ideig pusztító emlék is. De türelem, eljön majd a nap, amikor már nem lesz így.

Lo que importó ya no importa o muy poco, y para ese poco hay que hacer un esfuerzo;

Cómo alcanzaré la vida eterna?" "Ya es la vida eterna. Entra en el presente". "Pero si ya estoy en el presente… o no?". "No" "¿Por qué no?" "´Porque no has renunciado al pasado". "Y ¿por qué iba a renunciar a mi pasado? No todo el pasado es malo…" "No hay que renunciar al pasado porque sea malo, sino porque está muerto". Anthony de Mello.

If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don't carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

Forgiveness of those who have transgressed against you, or those you love, is not about them; it is about you. It is a gift to yourself.

let it go -- the smashed word broken open vow or the oath cracked length wise -- let it go it was sworn to go let them go -- the truthful liars and the false fair friends and the boths and neithers -- you must let them go they were born to go let all go -- the big small middling tall bigger really the biggest and all things -- let all go dear so comes love

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

This is my secret, he said. I don't mind what happens.

Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.

What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.

Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?

When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly it is gone. When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.

In surrender, you no longer need ego defenses and false masks. You become very simple, very real. "That's dangerous," says the ego. "You'll get hurt. You'll become vulnerable." What the ego doesn't know, of course, is that only through the letting go of resistance, through becoming "vulnerable," can you discover your true and essential invulnerability.

The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.

How do you let go of attachment to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.

Surrender comes when you no longer ask, "Why is this happening to me?

Let go of excessive thinking and see how everything changes. Your relationships change because you don't demand that the other person should do something for you to enhance your sense of self. You don't compare yourself to others or try to be more than someone else to strengthen your sense of identity.

This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.