Quotes About Release

True realization, true enlightenment, comes through a complete relinquishing of personal will - a complete letting go.

What is the cause of suffering in the human being? Why is it that human beings have such a difficult time putting their suffering down? What's the reason that we often carry it around, when it becomes such a burden to us? One of the primary reasons we suffer is because we believe what we think, that the thoughts in our heads come uninvited into our consciousness, swirl around, and we attach to them. We identify with them and grab hold of them.

Relinquishment is what spiritual teachers mean when they say, "die before you die.

Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.

Give up the past! Turn to the future! What is done is done. Bitterness will not undo it.

I think Mrs. Leidner seems happier already from just talking about it. That's always a help, you know. It's bottling things up that makes them get on your nerves.

Oh, the glorious relief, the wonderful relief when somebody knows what's in your mind and tells it to you so that you are at last released from that long bondage of silence.

To make the wax figures and stick in the pins, it is silly, yes, it is childish, yes—but it does something useful too. You took the hate out of yourself and put it into that little figure. And with the pin and the fire you destroyed—not your stepmother—but the hate you bore her. Afterwards, even before you heard of her death, you felt cleansed, did you not—you felt lighter—happier?

Geef het op. Richt u op de toekomst. Wat gebeurd is, is gebeurd en bitterheid kan daar niets aan veranderen.

I held my breath for a moment or two, and then I let myself rip.

Your job is to be free, not to carry around the so-called attainments or failures of the past.

Remember you don't meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things. We do it, not with desire, but with letting go.

One begins to realize that liberation is through letting go, through allowing life to flow, through openness and attention. 1 August 2001

It's a rather joyous song," Cohen said when Various Positions was released. "I like very much the last verse—'And even though it all went wrong, / I'll stand before the Lord of Song / with nothing on my lips but Hallelujah!

Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

Love your rage, not your cage.

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

He didn't want to think about the past, present, or future.

It is like a kayaker approaching a rapid. Once he reaches the point of no return he just has to go for it and trust himself to cope with whatever may be thrown at him. I am on my way. There is no point worrying anymore. I feel a surge of release and remember why I put myself through all these agonies. I love the thrill of beginning new projects. It is a feeling that makes me sing out loud and feel like the luckiest man alive.

It's freeing to not be caught up in your own personal baggage.

Music is like art, so I just paint all my pictures and put 'em out there.

I like the idea of sort of being able to stick a pin in something and deflate it with humor and just get a laugh, otherwise we'll cry.