Quotes About Relinquishment

I had only one desire: to leave, to walk, to die, whatever. I wanted to get away, never come back, disappear, melt away into the forest, the clouds, no longer have memories, forget, forget.

poor and poverty-stricken persons desire wealth; animals desire speech; ordinary persons are obsessed with the idea of going to heaven; God men and hermits only seek relinquishment.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess. MARTIN LUTHER

And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that way is madness.

At such times you give yourself over to His will. There is no opposition to God, there is only surrender.

Even while you paid attention to what you must do today and tomorrow, you heard the receding sound of what you had relinquished.

somehow I knew that I could do it. I knew that I must abandon myself entirely to the will of the Father and live from now on in this spirit of self-abandonment to God. And I did it. I can only describe the experience as a sense of "letting go," giving over totally my last effort or even any will to guide the reins of my own life. It is all too simply said, yet that one decision has affected every subsequent moment of my life. I have to call it a conversion.

todos morimos, envejecemos y enfermamos. La existencia o la vida, como veremos más adelante, es impermanente, y por lo tanto nuestras fuentes de apego se agotarán, nos guste o no. Si aceptaras esta premisa con todo tu ser no tendrías apegos.

We don't have to be anywhere. The party we left and the one we were headed to are probably over.

When liberty is taken away by force, it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished by default it can never be recovered.

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

The very last phase of spiritual awakening is what I call "the transmutation." Transmutation is what transfiguration and relinquishment make possible. In it, your orientation to life is entirely selfless. It's not that you want to be selfless or you're practicing being selfless: rather you're selfless in the sense of no self.

I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

We are being propelled into this new century with no plan, no control, no brakes…. The only realistic alternative I see is relinquishment: to limit development of the technologies that are too dangerous, by limiting our pursuit of certain kinds of knowledge. —BILL JOY, "WHY THE FUTURE DOESN'T NEED US

You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone.

When I finish a job, I surrender it completely. I have to, because after that, it really is out of my hands.

good counsel: generosity, longevity, acceptance, relinquishment, letting the world come to me -- and, with these things to make a life.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Sinful man really hopes when he no longer has anything of his own.

Never love something so much that you can't let go of it.

Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to another - you will find none.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

Let it be then let it go.

God endlessly fails to extend his blessings. That is because he no longer sits on the throne.