Quotes About Release

Now, I want only to give away all that I'm blessed to know and disappear in the stream.

It's such a simple thing, but in a moment of ego we refuse to put down what we carry in order to open the door. Time and time again, we are offered the chance to truly learn this: We cannot hold on to things and enter. We must put down what we carry, open the door, and then take up only what we need to bring inside.

To move from controlling to trusting life is like exhausting ourselves by trying to put our arms around a river until we realize we have to enter the river and let the current take us.

dialogue with this feeling and ask why it will not go; just what does it need in order to leave?

We cannot hold on to things and enter. We must put down what we carry, open the door, and then take up only what we need to bring inside.

Of course, there will always be times that we need to find our very precise way. But more often than not, our image of a destination is only a starting point that we cling to needlessly. When we can free up our sense of needing to arrive in a certain place, we lessen the weight of being lost. And once beneath arriving and beneath our fear of failing to arrive, the real journey begins.

we must release God from any subconscious belief we have that He is indebted to us to run a better universe.

Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now." —Annie Dillard

Once I could no longer find a way to theologically maintain God and hold onto the significance of my historical moment, letting go of God was natural.

Barbara stumbled, and, for a brief second, took my arm. It was then, perhaps, that a force was released, no less powerful for its action proving somewhat delayed; for emotions of that kind are not always immediately grasped.

How can I stand here forgiven and free of all my past mistakes, and not forgive you?

Alles wat je loslaat, alles wat van je wordt afgenomen maakt - doordat je het loslaat, doordat het van je wordt afgenomen - ruimte voor iets nieuws, misschien zelfs iets beters. De melancholie berust dikwijls op een verheerlijking van het verleden die dat verleden helemaal niet verdient. Alleen omdat we het verleden betrekkelijk goed kennen, omdat het ons zo vertrouwd voorkomt, denken we dat we daar thuishoren.

A crystalline moment shatters, and the world is a different place. Where there was confinement, now there is release. Recoiling from my sudden liberation, my left arm flings downcanyon, opening my shoulders to the south, and I fall back against the northern wall of the canyon, my mind is surfing on euphoria. As I stare at the wall where not twelve hours ago I etched "RIP OCT 75 ARON APR 03," a voice shouts in my head: I AM FREE!

When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

There's a lot to be said for forgiveness. Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them. ~Atlantean God and 1st Dark-Hunter Acheron Parthenopaeus~

When she reached the button of his jeans, his hips jerked and he squeezed his eyes closed, hoped he wouldn't make a fool of himself and lose it the second she touched him. He hadn't done anything like that in ages, not since high school, but Nia shattered his control like nothing else.

I wonder now what it was like living for four years, not wanting to, only waiting for your hold to weaken so you could finish up and leave.

I will relinquish my possession of this self of mine, abdicate, give over willingly what I never wanted at all; whatever it wants of me it can have.

Forgiveness is warm Like a tear on a cheek!

Perhaps it has us now, this house, perhaps it will not let us go.

Das ist zu viel, dachte sie, ich leiste Verzicht auf dieses Selbst, danke ab, gebe freiwillig ab, was ich sowieso nie haben wollte; was es auch von mir will, kann es haben.

No; it is over for me. It is too much, she thought, I will relinquish my possession of this self of mine, abdicate, give over willingly what I never wanted at all; whatever it wants of me it can have.

Release and resolve fear, and what you want flows freely.

Les émotions non exprimées ne meurent jamais. Elles sont enterrées vivantes et libérées plus tard de façon plus laides.