"Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it."
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"You can victimize yourself by wallowing around in your own past."
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"I know it's hard to let go of people that have been with you forever. Sometimes it's time to call it a day."
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"The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty."
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"We need to do what we can do and let God do what we cannot."
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"The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way."
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"In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess these, but they can be ripened: precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go."
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"Use memories. Do not let memories use you."
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"As we meditate regularly, we let go of the conditioned beliefs and accumulated physical and mental toxicity that cloud our perception of our essential, unbounded nature."
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"Let go of the spirit of the departed, and continue the celebration of your own life."
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"The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening."
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"The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go."
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"People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them."
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"There are strong people who aren't able to climb. It's about reading the rock, knowing how to position your body and having the tenacity to not let go."
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"What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?"
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"So now you can let go, my darling...Let go...Let go of this poor old body. You don't need it anymore. Let it fall away from you. Leave it lying there like a pile of worn-out clothes...Go on, my darling, go on into the Light, into the peace, into the living peace of the Clear Light."
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"In order to make room for more of God in our life, we need to let go of things that are currently filling our heart and reorder the things that are not ordered properly in Him. The importance of an appropriate detachment from the things of the world-or as they sometimes speak of it, the putting of our lives into the right-is stressed by all the spiritual writers."
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"Everybody's got a past. The past does not equal the future unless you live there."
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"One thing I've learned about life is that if you really let go, it's just a joy ride."
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"We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves."
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