Quotes About Letting go

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.

You can either hold onto your dream by letting go of your excuses or hold onto your excuses by letting go of your dream.

Don't waste tomorrow on yesterday.

Like a river's flow, forgiveness cascades, Washing away resentment's dark shades, It breaks the chains that bind the heart, Granting liberation, a brand-new start.

Dec. 31… "Let the past rest, but let it rest in the sweet embrace of Christ. Leave the broken, irreversible past in His hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.

Even the weakest saint can experience the power of the deity of the Son of God, when he is willing to "let go." But any effort to "hang on" to the least bit of our own power will only diminish the life of Jesus in us. We have to keep letting go, and slowly, but surely, the great full life of God will invade us, penetrating every part. Then Jesus will have complete and effective dominion in us, and people will take notice that we have been with Him.

Being born again by the Spirit of God means that we must first be willing to let go before we can grasp something else.

let the past sleep, but let it sleep in the sweet embrace of Christ, and let us go on into the invincible future with Him.

The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.

It's no use fretting for what you can't get," croaked the raven. "Does being angry make any difference?Be sensible! What can you do about it?

What a relief to leave the job of directing the universe to God.

He held his hands up again. "Subject dropped," he repeated. "I dropped it — look, there it goes, rolling across the floor.

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us

Abandon your notions of the past, without attributing a temporal sequence! Cut off your mental associations regarding the future, without anticipation! Rest in a spacious modality, without clinging to [the thoughts of] the present. Do not meditate at all, since there is nothing upon which to meditate. Instead, revelation will come through undistracted mindfulness — Since there is nothing by which you can be distracted.

Instead of getting personally involved in our problem, we can just as easily let go and let the majesty of the universe do its glorious thing.

I have to jettison every sorrow, every terror, every misconception, every lie that stands between my conscious mind and what I know in my heart to be true. … I have expanded my reality from a string of solid facts, as narrow, strong, and cold as a razor's edge, to a wild chaos of possibility.

freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

If you can't let go of that fear of making the wrong decision, you will never be able to take the chances you must take to live life fully.

I want my kids to be self-reliant, resilient, and happy. I just don't want to let go of their hands.

?hat's when I found faith, when my young'uns growed up and I had to let them go.

You can't hold on, Zoe. Not to hate. Not even to love. You kill things that way. There's only one freedom. Forgiveness. And sometimes the hardest thing to do is to forgive yourself.

I've learned and unlearned all my life; it's helped me to survive. There are no constants, nothing is immutable, only random circumstance from which our experience builds a coherent arc of life. And for that arc you have only to be truly done with one thing before moving to another. There's an art in letting go.

I no longer ask, "What do I want to let go of, and what do I want to hang on to?" Instead I ask, "What do I want to let go of, and what do I want to give myself to?" The desire to "hang on" comes from a sense of scarcity and fear. The desire to "give myself" comes from a sense of abundance and generosity. That's the kind of truth I want to wither into.