"Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don't worry if He works through your nature or above your nature, because both are His, nature and grace."
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"Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment."
"There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go."
"Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities."
"The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose."
"Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts."
"Live fully, love deeply, let go with no bitterness."
"Let go of the idea that the path will lead you to your goal. The truth is that with each step we take, we arrive. Repeat that to yourself every morning: 'I've arrived.' That way you'll find it much easier to stay in touch with each second of your day."
"The Buddha’s principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let go. The only way to fully understand the bodhichitta teachings, the only way to practice them fully, is to abide in the unconditional openness of the prajna, patiently cutting through all our tendencies to hang on."
"The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go."
"And when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt - this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life no matter how slight."
"Freedom is Letting Go."
"As I let go of the need to arrange my life, the universe brings abundant good to me."
"Everyone knows how to choose; few know how to let go. But it's only by letting go of each experience that you make room for the next. The skill of letting go can be learned, and once learned you will enjoy living much more spontaneously."
"In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. It will be a permanent Self, rooted in awareness and creativity. Once you have captured this, you have captured the world."
"We can begin to let go of the complications that cause us to suffer by cultivating a simple state of awareness. In this process, tiny steps yield big results, in part because simplicity is nature's default position. Suffering and the complications that fuel it are unnatural; it wastes energy to maintain complexity."
"The present moment is a conspiracy of the total universe. To resist it is to resist the universe. Let go and flow."
"Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time."
"My ex send late night text cause she don't know to let go"
"Don't let go of your strength or your beauty. It was given to you by God."