2,179 Quotes About Letting-go

What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?

The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.

One of the essential tasks for living a wise life is letting go. Letting go is the path to freedom. It is only by letting go of the hopes, the fears, the pain, the past, the stories that have a hold on us that we can quiet our mind and open our heart.

In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course I get angry, but then a few minutes later I say to myself, 'What's the use of this,' and I let it go.'

To let go in the deepest recesses of the heart, to release all struggle and wanting, leads us to that knowing which is timeless.

Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.

How well we have learned to let go

Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we resist and fear secretly follows us even as we push it away. To let go of fear or trauma, we need to acknowledge just how it is. We need to feel it fully and accept that it is so. It is as it is. Letting go begins with letting be.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.