Quotes About Letting go

An action from a confused and suffering being in the past doesn't represent what that being is forever; it is only an expression of that being's suffering. And if we cling to resentment over past hurts, we simply increase our own suffering.

The most important thing to remember is that we must live in the present, and if in the present moment we are still holding on to old wounds and betrayals, it is in this moment that forgiveness is called for.

If we cling now, we suffer later. If

Renunciation is a commitment to let go of the things that create suffering. It is founded on the intention to stop hurting ourselves and others.

Was man verloren hat, findet sich manchmal wieder, aber was man aufgegeben hat, kommt nie zurück.

Instead, Emerson came to accept that when someone dies, things that belong to you disappear, too.

You can't worry about what you can't control,

Why would we have to know everything all the time? Why do we have to be so knowledgeable, so smart, so in control? We don't! There's no need to figure everything out. We can just be alive. We can breathe in and breathe out and let go and just trust our life, trust our body. Our body and our life know what to do. The problem is to let them do it, to relax and let them guide us.

The only difference between meditation and non meditation is that when we meditate we are not grasping anything or trying to do anything: instead we are releasing ourselves to our lives, with trust that our lives are all we need. (78)

Forgiveness Meditation. Settle into meditation. Recall someone whom you know you need to forgive. Just let the person's image or the sense of who they are arise in your mind. Feel the feelings. Observe whatever happens without entanglement. Let the feelings come and go. Don't try to forgive, just be present.

Consequently not any self-control or self-limitation for the sake of specific ends, but rather a carefree letting go of one-self.… Not caution but rather a wise blindness.… Not working to acquire silent, slowly increasing possessions, but rather a continuous squandering of all shifting values.… This way of being has something naïve and instinctive about it and resembles that period of the unconscious best characterized by a joyous confidence: namely the period of childhood.

We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.

Beni bir gün unutacaksan, bir gün b?rak?p gideceksen bo?una yorma derdi, bo?una ma?aramdan ç?karma beni. Al??kanl?klar?m?, özellikle yaln?zl??a al??kanl???m? kaybettirme bo?una.

some of the stuff you mourn isn't worth the energy. Life will be full of many other things to distract you and cause worry.

Let go of me." It smoothed its tentacles again. "Be grateful, Joe. I'm not going to let go of you.

Tida går, forteler dei. Men det er vi som går. Tida blir liggande att ho, og lat henne ligge.

If something hurts me, I erase it from my mental map. Places where I stumbled, fell, where I was struck down, cut to the quick, where things were painful—such places are simply not there any longer. This means I've gotten rid of several big cities and one whole province. Maybe someday I'll eliminate a country.

He learned how to forget, and forgetting brought him relief.

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

Why hate, and struggle, and fight? Let is be as it would.

She does not attach much importance to passing events.' Harriet laughed. 'You have only to let them pass and they lose their importance.

Iíve learned not to worry about what might come next

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.