Quotes About Release

It had been a conscious decision to pull free. It had taken everything I had to do it, like an animal gnawing a limb off to escape a trap. And somehow I had done it;

And besides (I told myself) wasn't it time to Move Forward, Let Go, turn from the garden that was locked to me? Live In The Present, Focus On The Now instead of grieving for what I could never have?

It had been a conscious decision to pull free. It had taken everything I had to do it, like an animal gnawing a limb off to escape a trap.

What happens to rage deferred? It explodes. It explodes in spectacular fashion.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind.

Forgive and Move on As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind. ISABELLE HOLLAND Award-winning author of 28 books

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then its yours forever. If it doesnt, then it was never yours to begin with.

For a number of years, a serial killer roamed Columbia, killing victim after victim. After the body count had reached 300, the police had just about enough clues to identify the perpetrator, Pedro Lopez, and thankfully caught him. At his trial he pleaded insanity, and was sent to a mental asylum. Just four years later, doctors there declared Lopez sane and released him. His current whereabouts are unknown.

To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.

Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is simply to release any images and emotions.

Feel your own precious body and life. Let yourself see the way you have hurt or harmed yourself. Picture them, remember them. Feel the sorrow you have carried from this and sense that you can release these burdens. Extend forgiveness for each of them, one by one.

Accumulated knots in the fabric of our body, previously undetected, begin to reveal themselves as we open.

identify with everything so easily—with your body, your thoughts, your opinions, your roles—and so you suffer. I have released all identification.

most often the kinds of pains we encounter in meditative attention are not indications of physical problems. They are the painful, physical manifestations of our emotional, psychological, and spiritual holdings and contractions.

Letting go is a central theme in spiritual practice, as we see the preciousness and brevity of life. When letting go is called for, if we have not learned to do so, we suffer greatly, and when we get to the end of our life, we may have what is called a crash course. Sooner or later we have to learn to let go and allow the changing mystery of life to move through us without our fearing it, without holding and grasping. I

Just something else to let go of.

If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free. Ajahn Chah

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how greatly you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

They never tell you about that either. How the hardest thing a mother has to do is give her child up, let them go, watch them run.

Missy shoved the thoughts and feelings down into their prison of the glass jar. Only once the lid was sealed tight did she release her breath.

All that mattered was the blood. She had to bleed out the badness, bleed until she could breathe again.

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.