Quotes about letting-go
letting-go buddhism profound
We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything. Jack Kornfield
letting-go acceptance self
In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course I get angry, but then a few minutes later I say to myself, 'What's the use of this,' and I let it go.' Jack Kornfield
letting-go spiritual memories
When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice. Only in this moment can we discover that which is timeless. Only here can we find the love that we seek. Love in the past is simply memory, and love in the future is fantasy. Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world. Jack Kornfield
letting-go past appreciate
When we let go of yearning for the future, preoccupation with the past, and strategies to protect the present, there is nowhere left to go but where we are. To connect with the present moment is to begin to appreciate the beauty of true simplicity. Jack Kornfield
letting-go spiritual heart
When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice. Jack Kornfield
letting-go buddhism order
We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing. Jack Kornfield
letting-go wise pain
One of the essential tasks for living a wise life is letting go. Letting go is the path to freedom. It is only by letting go of the hopes, the fears, the pain, the past, the stories that have a hold on us that we can quiet our mind and open our heart. Jack Kornfield
letting-go heart fighting
Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Jack Kornfield
letting-go wise mean
Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way. Jack Kornfield
letting-go struggle aversion
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. Jack Kornfield
letting-go block heart
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart. Jack Kornfield
letting-go spiritual important
In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while relinquishing things that do not matter to us. A lukewarm yearning for awakening is not enough to sustain us through the difficulties involved in letting go. It is important to understand that anything that can be lost was never truly ours, anything that we deeply cling to only imprisons us. Jack Kornfield
letting-go cheer-up three
In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go Jack Kornfield
letting-go wise mean
Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached to things staying the same, we realize that relaxing and letting go is a wiser way to live. Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way. Jack Kornfield
letting-go mean past
If you want something new in your life, you have to make space for it. I mean that psychologically as well as physically. Take a look at your closet. If you have the kind of closet where you can't fit another thing in there, that might be the reason you don't have more new clothes. If you want a new man in your life, you've got to let go of the one who stopped dating you five years ago. In other words, you need to complete the past in order for the present to show up more fully. Jack Canfield
letting-go ideas deserve-more
It's not a bad way to live once you let go of the idea that you deserve more. J. J. Abrams
letting-go sunshine color
Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others. Lois Lowry
letting-go giver sameness
We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others. Lois Lowry
letting-go dark artist
Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised. Madeleine L'Engle
letting-go ashes world
It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes. Madeleine L'Engle
letting-go discovery reason
the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control. Madeleine L'Engle
letting-go eye creativity
Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes. Madeleine L'Engle
letting-go plato mean
Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; it means letting go our sane self control, that control which gives us the illusion of safety. But safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part of listening to the silence, and to the spirit. Madeleine L'Engle
letting-go hands medical
Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist. “Not cold so much as underoxygenated,” I said. “I love it when you talk medical to me,” he said. He stood, and pulled me up with him, and did not let go of my hand until we reached the stairs. John Green
letting-go hurt alaska
At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved. John Green
letting-go moving eye
Are there bears in these mountains?" he asked. His companion nodded. "Of course. But it's a bit early in the year for them to be moving around. Why?" Halt let go a long breath. "Just a vague hope, really. There's a chance that when the Temujai here you crashing around in the trees, they might think you're a bear." Erak smiled, with his mouth only. His eyes were as cold as the snow. "You're a very amusing fellow," he told Halt. "I'd like to brain you with my ax one of these days." "If you could manage to do it quietly, I'd almost welcome it," Halt said. John Flanagan
letting-go may dont-let-go
Just don't let go or you may drown. Jonathan Larson
letting-go dirty night
When you're playing the same dirty dozen night after night, the moments that keep it fresh are those when you just let go and trust everyone. Jonathan Cain
letting-go fall feet
That the reason why they are not fallen already and do not fall now is only that God's appointed time is not come. For it is said, that when that due time, or appointed time comes, their foot shall slide. Then they shall be left to fall, as they are inclined by their own weight. God will not hold them up in these slippery places any longer, but will let them go; and then, at that very instant, they shall fall into destruction; as he that stands on such slippery declining ground, on the edge of a pit, he cannot stand alone, when he is let go he immediately falls and is lost. Jonathan Edwards
letting-go hands leaving
Alexander tilted his head and kissed her deeply on the lips. He let go of her hands, and she wrapped her arms around his neck, pressing herself against him. They kissed as if in a fever... they kissed as if the breath were leaving their bodies. Paullina Simons
letting-go waiting soldier
Tania,” he whispers, “promise me you won’t forget me when I die.” “You won’t die, soldier,” she says. “You won’t die. Live! Live on, breathe on, claw onto life, and do not let go. Promise me you will live for me, and I promise you, when you’re done, I will be waiting for you.” She is sobbing. “Whenever you’re done, Alexander, I will be here, waiting for you. Paullina Simons
letting-go hands grace
Let God operate in thee; Hand the work over to Him and do not disquiet thyself as to whether or no He is working with nature or above nature, for His are both nature and grace.
letting-go people world
People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.