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Silver Lining Of Your Cloud
Life Quotes and Sayings
Letting Go
Whatever you fight you strengthen, and what you resist, persists. ~Eckhart
Tolle
Suffering is exclusively the result of attachment or resistance, it is a sign of
lacking readiness to go on, to flow with life. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with
nothing, life itself reveals again and again the opposite: that letting go is the
path to real freedom. ~Sogyal Rinpoche
The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it,
will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. for whether it be a strong wire
rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it
really holds it fast; for until the chord can be broken, the bird cannot fly. ~St.
John of the Cross
To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn
in each new one. ~Jack Kornfield
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it
might turn out to be. ~Alan Watts
We believe that it is difficult to let go, but in truth, it is much more difficult
and painful to hold and protect. Reflect upon anything in your life that you
grasp hold of–an opinion, a historical resentment, an ambition, or an
unfulfilled fantasy. Sense the tightness, fear, and defensiveness that surrounds
the grasping. It is a painful, anxious experience of unhappiness. We do not let
go in order to make ourselves impoverished or bereft. We let go in order to
discover happiness and peace. ~Christina Feldman
The truth is you can’t try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let
go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be. ~Adyashanti
How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible.
Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find
yourself in them. ~Eckhart Tolle
Every breath is an opportunity to receive and let go. I receive love and I let go
of pain. ~Brenda McIntyre
Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings,
frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments
and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar in the freedom of
desirelessness. Let go. Let Be. See through everything and be free, complete,
luminous, at home–at ease. ~ Lama Surya Das
After all our futile efforts to transform our ordinary minds into idealized,
spiritual minds, we discover the fundamental paradox of practice is that
leaving everything alone is itself what is ultimately transformative. ~Barry
Magid
True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything
gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go of itself. We
don’t even let go. It lets go of itself. ~Adyashanti
In the simple, direct experience of what is, you have an ongoing opportunity
to awaken out of the trance the mind perpetuates to the radiant fullness and
completeness of being. Just keep letting go and surrendering to what is.
~Stephan Bodian
Unknowingly, you are constantly carrying expectations, hopes and desires of
what should happen to you, what you would like to experience and what you
would like life to give you. In those moments, when you are letting go of all
these different expectations, these are the moments of grace when you are
having a glimpse of wholeness, of a silent heart.~Thyoar
So much of our discontent and our dissatisfaction comes from our
unwillingness to let go of trying to control things and trying to cause just the
results that we think should occur. ~Tom Walsh
In my life nothing goes wrong. When things seem to not meet my
expectations, I let go of how things should be. It’s a matter of not having any
attachment to any fixed outcome. ~Deepak Chopra
There is nothing scary about life, if you are not attached to results. ~Neale
Donald Walsch
When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need. Have you ever struggled
to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the
paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. ~Mary Manin Morrissey
Let-go means no competition, no struggle, no fight… just relaxing with
existence, wherever it leads. Not trying to control your future, not trying to
control consequences, but allowing them to happen… not even thinking about
them. Let-go is in the present; consequences are tomorrow, and let-go is such
a delightful experience, a total relaxation, a deep synchronicity with
existence. ~Osho
Leave your existence to existence, stop caring for yourself so much and let
the universe care for you; it is the best mother. There has to be some trust, not
just belief, because trust is intimate… something lets go to this invitation to
stop holding yourself and lets go to existence instead. The very letting go will
be observed in your presence. ~Mooji
Give up yourself to others. Give up yourself to life. Give up struggling to
make sense of it all. Simply, give up. ~T’ao-shan
The greatest step towards a life of happiness and simplicity is to let go. Trust
in the power that is already taking care of you spontaneously without effort.
Let us rise and be thankful. ~Mooji
Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will
govern itself. ~Lao Tzu
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
~Lao Tzu
As long as I am this or that, I am not all things. ~Meister Eckhart
It’s very hard to grow, because it’s difficult to let go of the models of
ourselves in which we’ve invested so heavily. ~Ram Dass
Healing may not be so much about getting better as about letting go of
everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs–and
becoming who you are. ~Rachel Naomi Remen
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the
unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
Let yourself be made new by your willingness to drop everything you know,
and float in the Unknown sea of the Heart. ~Jeannie Zandi
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You
have to let go at some point in order to move forward. ~C. S. Lewis
It is attachment to the condition that allows its presence. ~Shaun de Warren
Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the
wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing
which keeps you from hope and love? ~Leo Buscaglia
What we cling to is what gives us pain. ~Adyashanti
Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become
good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you’ll come to realize how
unnecessary it was for you to drag those burdens around with you. You’ll see
that no one else other than you was responsible. The truth is that Existence
wants your life to become a festival. ~Osho
Letting go doesn’t mean we don’t care. Letting go doesn’t mean we shut
down. Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people
behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment.
It means we stop trying to do the impossible–controlling that which we
cannot–and instead, focus on what is possible–which usually means taking
care of ourselves. And we do this in gentleness, kindness, and love, as much
as possible. ~Melody Beattie
There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to
leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s
the beginning of a new life. ~unknown
Every time you let go of something limiting, you create space for something
better. ~Stephen C. Paul
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the
life that is waiting for us. ~Joseph Campbell
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 Kornfeld
Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that
they pass away. ~Aitken Roshi
The clouds above us come together and disperse;
The breeze in the courtyard departs and returns.
Life is like that, so why not relax?
Who can keep us from celebrating?
~Lu-Yu
You have to sit with your life and feel how you hold it, and be willing for the
release to happen. It will happen spontaneously, because it’s already so. ~Reb
Anderson
To hold you must first open your hand, and let go. ~Lao Tzu
You only lose what you cling to. ~Buddha
The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. ~Zen saying
Happiness always look small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go,
and you learn at once how big and precious it is. ~Maxim Gorky
Let everything sit in the open palm of your hand and allow things to come
and go as they please. In doing so, you remain forever free to be you. ~Andy
Baggott
The journey to enlightenment involves shedding, not collecting. It’s a
continual process of opening and surrender, like taking off layer after layer of
clothes, until we’re completely naked with nothing to hide. But we can’t just
pretend, making a big display of disrobing, then putting everything back on
when no one’s looking. Our surrender has to be genuine. ~Pema Chodron
Sometimes, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling it
too strong, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your
door, you will not open it. ~Buddha
Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path. ~Thich
Nhat Hanh
The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely
there’s gold in letting go of them. ~John Seely Brown
Continue on your journey to release all that binds you until you become all
that you truly are. ~The Violet Flame
The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when
you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold
onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief. ~Adyashanti
The spiritual path is about what we give up, not what we get. We seem to
always want to get something—spiritual insights or experiences—as a kind of
commodity. We sign up for a retreat and expect that we’ll have this or that
wonderful experience or this or that special teaching. But don’t these wisdom
traditions teach us that, in essence, there’s nothing to get? We need to give up
what obscures the abiding wisdom and the abiding reality—the wisdom and
reality that is already here. ~Tim Olmsted
Give up all and you gain all. Then life becomes what it was meant to be: pure
radiation from an inexhaustible source. In that light the world appears dimly
like a dream. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
In a very simplistic way, the difference between those people that have had
deep and profound spiritual awakenings to their nature and those who are
actually liberated and free is this very simple matter: those who are liberated
and free have totally and absolutely let go of control. This is true because, if
you let go of control, you cannot help but be liberated and free. It’s like
jumping off a building. You can’t help but go down; gravity pulls you that
way. If you totally let go of control, you end up in complete self-realization.
~Adyashanti
When you let go of trying to get more of what you don’t really need, it frees
up oceans of energy to make a difference with what you have. ~Lynne Twist
If you are falling, dive. ~Joseph Campbell
As I started to picture the trees in the storm, the answer began to dawn on me.
The trees in the storm don’t try to stand up straight and tall and erect. They
allow themselves to bend and be blown with the wind. They understand the
power of letting go. Those trees and those branches that try too hard to stand
up strong and straight are the ones that break. ~Julia Butterfly Hill
No man is free until he is free at the center. When he lets go there, he is free
indeed. ~E. Stanley Jones
People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm
them. ~Meister Eckhart
