Letting Go Quotes - Page 29

• ...Help me let go of my need to stay immersed in negativity. I can change the energy in myself and my environment from nega­tive to positive. I will affirm the good until it sinks in and feels real. I will also strive to find one quality that I like about someone else who's important to me, and I will take the risk of telling him or her that.

  Melody Beattie

  Change, Real, Negativity

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

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• When we let go of wanting something else to happen in this moment, we are taking a profound step toward being able to encounter what is here now. If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing—a knowing that comes directly from the cultivation of mindfulness—we may only go in circles, for all our efforts and expectations. So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Hope, Circles, Knowing

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• The present moment is a conspiracy of the total universe.
  To resist it is to resist the universe.
  Let go and flow.

  Deepak Chopra

  Flow, Resistance, Moments

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Apr 21, 2011

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• There's a conspiracy / to protect the young, so they'll be fearless, / it's why you travel - it's a way of trying / to let go, of lying. You don't sit / in a stiff chair and worry, you keep moving. / Postcards from the Alamo, the Alhambra. / ... / You, fainting at the Buddhist caves. / Climbing with thousands on the Great Wall, / ... / Having the time of your life, blistered and smiling. / The acid of your fear could eat the world.

  Gail Mazur

  Buddhist, Wall, Lying

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• Sometimes, when I play music, I feel as if I am giving life. ... It isn't just notes on the paper anymore: you are recreating the thought, transmitting it. It becomes shareable, but it can never be kept. You go through and at the same time you let go of the experience. That is part of the wonder of music: it can never be kept; it is ephemeral and at the same time enduring.

  Hephzibah Menuhin

  Music, Play, Giving

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• The heart of the path is quite easy. There's no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That's all that I do in my own practice.

  Ajahn Chah

  Love, Hate, Heart

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• celebratin' New Year's Eve is like eatin' oranges. You got to let go your dignity t' really enjoy 'em.

  Edna Ferber

  New Year, Years, Orange

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Buttered Side Down”, p.53, Booklassic

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• The trouble with God isn't that He so seldom makes Himself known to us... He's holding you and me and everybody else by the scruff of the neck practically _constantly... Contentedly adrift in the cosmos, were you?... That is a perfect description of a non-epiphany, that rarest of moments, when God Almighty lets go of the scruff of your neck and lets you be human for a little while.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Perfect, Religion, Cosmos

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• What makes people and companies and artistic directors and choreographers interested in working with dancers is the ability to kind of let go of everything you think you know and be a blank canvas.

  Misty Copeland

  Thinking, People, Dancer

  Source: bknation.org

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• The call of Christ is to deny ourselves and to let go of our lives. To relinquish control of our lives, to surrender everything we are, everything that we do, our direction our safety our security is no longer found in the things of this world. It is found in Christ. And that is great risk when it comes to the things of this world.

  David Platt

  Safety, Risk, World

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I still have faith in people. But that is getting increasingly harder to maintain. I just don't see many people today choosing love. I see people passing it up a lot. Foreclosing on it, deferring it, sabotaging, letting go.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  People, Have Faith, Today

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• No matter how many times I tell you this, you're still thinking, thinking, judging, judging, coming to conclusions, trying to work out your life. You have to let go. Totally, absolutely, completely. You have to let go so completely that you will feel no body, no mind, no pain, nothing.

  Robert Adams

  Life, Pain, Work

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• Let go of the thoughts,
  let go of the mind,
  let go of everything.
  
  Let go!
  Drop it!
  Drop everything.
  Hold onto nothing.

  Robert Adams

  Mind

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• Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever it be, it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of it.

  William Mountford

  Heaven, Resignation

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.368

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• We may need to let go of our beliefs and ideas about life in order to have life.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Life, Order, Ideas

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.71, Penguin

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• Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go.

  Claudia Black

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Remember

  Claudia Black (2009). “Changing Course: Healing from Loss, Abandonment, and Fear”, p.1, Hazelden Publishing

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• In prayer one must hold fast and never let go, because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that no one is listening to you, then cry out even louder. If you are driven out of one door, go back in by the other.

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  Prayer, Giving Up, Doors

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• The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfilment, but brace yourself for failure.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Failure, Waiting, Doe

  Eugen Herrigel (1964). “Zen”

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• And sometimes we cling because the memory is so painful that we can't stop visiting it and hoping to make it come out differently. The risk of letting go is that we have to confront our own selves and our own possibilities.

  Amy Bloom

  Memories, Grief, Self

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• I always feel like I'm rehearsing. I'm a workaholic. But youve got to let go and trust and enjoy! I'm a real perfectionist. Its probably my biggest disadvantage. But as long as I can go out there, trust in the work and just have fun, thats what matters.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Fun, Real, What Matters

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• When you let go of the egoic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe.

  Adyashanti

  Self, Whole, Universe

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• Paradoxically, the more I learned to let go of my own wishes and desires (in this case, the desire not to be hit), the more they became possible.

  Peter Ralston

  Learning, Wish, Desire

  Peter Ralston, Laura Ralston (2011). “Zen Body-Being: An Enlightened Approach to Physical Skill, Grace, and Power”, p.19, North Atlantic Books

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• When we let go of all our notions about things, everything becomes really true.

  Kosho Uchiyama

  Really True, Notion

  Kōshō Uchiyama (1993). “Opening the Hand of Thought: Approach to Zen”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go.

  Monique Wittig

  Passion, Intelligence, Feels

  Monique Wittig (1987). “Across the Acheron”, Dufour Editions

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• 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.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Children, Vanity, Arrogance

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.26, Westminster John Knox Press

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