Quotes About Release

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again." ? Gautama Buddha

The Communist novice, subjecting his soul to the canon law of the Kremlin, felt something of the release which Catholicism also brings to the intellectual, wearied and worried by the privilege of freedom.

Everything seemed to flood over him then. It was as though he'd been the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike, refusing to let the sea of reason in.

I looked at all the people, feeling sorry for them. They were still subordinate to clock and calendar. Absolved of that, I stood becalmed.

Well, why not? Why not go out? It was a sure way to be free of them.

capes and hats and skirts. Thank you for the cradles. The beds. The diapers. Canoes. Paddles, harpoons, and nets. Poles, logs, posts. The rot-proof shakes and shingles. The kindling that will always light." Each new item is release and relief. Finding no good reason to quit now, she lets the gratitude spill out. "Thank you for the tools. The chests. The decking. The clothes closets. The paneling

After two decades with his shoulders up near his ears, bracing for this hammer fall, his long flinch is over at last.

How ethical is it to let these animals go a long time before they die?

He waited another minute, then another, and then when it seemed that the anxiety was too much to bear, he ordered 'ZIP in!' Ã¢â'¬Â It was 3:53 P.M. Fermi had run the pile for 4.5 minutes at one-half watt and brought to fruition all the years of discovery and experiment. Men had controlled the release of energy from the atomic nucleus.

all mature spirituality, in one sense or another, is about letting go and unlearning.

Forgiveness is to let go of our hope for a different or better past.

All Mature Spirituality Is About Letting Go

Before the truth 'sets you free', it tends to make you miserable.

Forgiveness is to let go of our hope for a different or better past." It is what it is, and such acceptance leads to great freedom, as long as there is also accountability and healing in the process.

The spiritual life is always about letting go of unnecessary baggage so that we're prepared for death's final letting go.

All the emptying out is only for the sake of a Great Outpouring.

You do not climb up to your True Self. You fall into it, so don't avoid all falling

Francis of Assisi was a master of making room for the new and letting go of that which was tired or empty.

All great spirituality is somehow about letting go.

Yearning for a new way will not produce it. Only ending the old way can do that.

She hadn't so much spoken the words as let them out of their cages….

He's got a good, righteous head of steam up, and I envy him this. He's saying things that friendship has kept him from saying for twenty years, and their release at this late date is orgasmic. Asking him to stop would be like asking him to pull out.

Ah, fuck the past, right?" And when Miles offered no opinion on whether this was either possible or advisable, his eyes narrowed. "My boy Zack's

you loved. You didn't love them any less, but it was nice not to have to lug them around. And since this was the way of things, why not let nature work in her favor?