Quotes About Letting go

With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between where you don't want to be (now) and where you want to be (the projected future). Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting, snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything.

Forgiveness is to offer no resistance to life.

The stronger the ego, the more time takes over your life. Almost every thought you think is then concerned with past or future, and your sense of self depends on the past for your identity and on the future for its fulfillment.

DIE TO THE PAST EVERY MOMENT. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present.

If you can learn to accept and even welcome the endings in your life, you may find that the feeling of emptiness that initially felt uncomfortable turns into a sense of inner spaciousness that is deeply peaceful. By learning to die daily in this way, you open yourself to Life.

quiere crear más dolor para usted y para los demás, si no quiere aumentar más el residuo de sufrimiento pasado que aún vive en usted, no cree más tiempo, o al menos no más del necesario para manejar los aspectos prácticos de su vida. ¿Cómo detener la producción de tiempo? Dése cuenta profundamente de que el momento presente es todo lo que tiene.

To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad.

I can't love you unless I give you up.

I tell myself not to remember the past, not to hope or fear for the future, and not to think in the present, a comprehensive program that will undoubtedly have very little success.

Talking of 'letting go of a lot of stuff,' his father handed the phrase back to Seamus, held by the corner like someone else's used handkerchief....

I wished that adults were as capable as children of moving beyond some impasse, letting go of whatever had been intractable only hours or days ago. I envied them that ability to discard their past selves as if they were old, tattered, useless skins.

awareness is itself a solvent. Simply allowing a thought, idea, anxiety or compulsion to rest within the field of awareness will dissolve that thought, idea and so on.

If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was

Do not become attached to anything that can destroy you in the course of time.

After anyone retires from a position of responsibility and remains associated with the same organisation, it is unfair to your successor to try and retain the authority you once possessed. You have to let go and let the new man and the new regime do what they think is best.

I try not to. I mean, you shouldn't miss people who don't miss you, right?

It's about doing the right thing even if you don't want to do it. About taking responsibility for your actions...it's about letting go when you really, really want to hold on so bad.

You shouldn't miss people who don't miss you, right?

You shouldn't miss people who don't miss you...

Part of loving someone is wanting the best for them, even if the best for them isn't being with you.

The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.

If being is what life is all about, why are we so afraid of it? Why is it so difficult for us to "let go and just be"?

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you'd never, ever stop grieving.