Quotes About Release

I can't explain that, except to say there's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at least, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.

Do not fear to lose what needs to be lost.

I tell you, there are times when words are so glad to be set free they laugh out loud and prance across their tablets and inside their scrolls.

You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do. To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened. Forgiveness means releasing our rage and our need to retaliate, no longer dwelling on the offense, the offender, and the suffering, and rising to a higher love. It is an act of letting go so that we ourselves can go on.

What is bound will be unbound. What is cast down will be lifted up. That is the promise of Our Lady.

I'd held the world too close and it had slipped from my arms.

Regrets don't help anything, you know that.

As I painted, deeply buried emotions boiled to the surface.

Jesus's capacity for mercy baffled me. I didn't know if I could give up the wrongs my father had done, the way I hauled them around like an ossuary of precious old bones. Jesus made it seem as if one could just lay them down.

Forgiveness was so much harder than being remorseful. I couldn't imagine the terrible surrender it would take

I looked at him. I'd held the world too close and it had slipped from my arms.

Once again we were in captivity.

Remember, tears are like rivers that start in one place and flow to another—they can help carry you to healing.

emotional and mental peace comes as a result of releasing yourself from your toxic parents' control, without necessarily having to forgive them. And that release can come only after you've worked through your intense feelings of outrage and grief and after you've put the responsibility on their shoulders, where it belongs.

Part of getting better was learning how to let go. It had taken her a while but she'd finally figured out that when she stopped trying to control the world, she had a whole lot less anxiety.

If you hang on too tight, sometimes things get broken. If you don't let go sometimes, the bad stuff can't get out and the good stuff can't get in." He

My repressed feelings leak out —slowly – in the form of resentment – a continual leakage of resentment.

re: cutting glass...You have to be in command of the glass, telling it where to release its hold on itself. Just like life. Otherwise it will splinter.

Therefore, what I had been taught to fear I now embraced. Betrayal- his or mine, it didn't matter- freed me.

The heaviness of forgiveness descended the moment after I wrote the words.

There was something in the way a man held a woman when he was about to let her go.

Forgiveness was such a simple thing, she thought, once you surrendered to it.

maybe crying helped, he reflected, counting the squares of the grid that imprisoned him. Not crying was actually painful, an ache of pressure in his chest. Maybe girls cried because it let off the pressure.

Beautiful flames, can destroy so many things—prison walls that hold you, stitches that bind you fast.