Letting Go Quotes - Page 17

Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.

Perish each thought of human pride, let God alone be magnified.

Fear and guilt are your only enemies. If you let go of fear, fear lets go of you. If you release guilt, guilt will release you. How do you do that? By deciding to.

Letting go does not mean pushing away or negating thoughts or feelings that come to us - but instead being with the feeling. We start to feel that we are no longer victims of the stuff that happens to us. There is something we can do about it... if we just take a look at it.

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.

Abide in Me says Jesus. Cling to Me. Stick fast to Me. Live the life of close and intimate communion with Me. Get nearer to Me. Roll every burden on Me. Cast your whole weight on Me. Never let go your hold on Me for a moment. Be, as it were, rooted and planted in Me. Do this and I will never fail you. I will ever abide in you.

The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.

Don't keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions.

Who among us will celebrate Christmas correctly? Whoever finally lays down all power, l honor, all reputation, all vanity, all arrogance, all individualism beside the manger; whoever remains lowly and lets God alone be high; whoever looks at the child in the manger and sees the glory of God precisely in his lowliness.

Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution.

The real master is only a presence. He has no intentions of being a master. His presence is his teaching. His love is his message. Every gesture of his hand is pointing to the moon. And this whole thing is not being done, it is a happening. The master is not a doer. He has learned the greatest secret of life: let-go. The master has drowned his ego and the idea of separation from existence itself.

Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.

You can only lose what you cling to.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.

It's hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I've learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.

Forget what hurt you but never forget what it thaught you.

Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt

Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up everything—not just wealth. All the bullshit he's been taught—all society's brainwashing. You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren't willing to do that.

Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.

Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we resist and fear secretly follows us even as we push it away. To let go of fear or trauma, we need to acknowledge just how it is. We need to feel it fully and accept that it is so. It is as it is. Letting go begins with letting be.

In almost all matters, the real question should be: why are we letting government handle this?