Quotes about Release

All Mature Spirituality Is About Letting Go

The spiritual life is always about letting go of unnecessary baggage so that we're prepared for death's final letting go.

All the emptying out is only for the sake of a Great Outpouring.

You do not climb up to your True Self. You fall into it, so don't avoid all falling

We have always made it hard for God to give away God for free.

Francis of Assisi was a master of making room for the new and letting go of that which was tired or empty.

All great spirituality is somehow about letting go.

You can forgive the outer world only if and when you have first forgiven your own inner world.

Yearning for a new way will not produce it. Only ending the old way can do that.

Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment.

Listen: Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.

Listen: Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go. The Bible says, "To worry yourself to death with resentment would be a foolish, senseless thing to do."3