“What is the purpose of my life, is it doesn't have to do with learning to let go?”
Source: Jack Johnson - Sleep Through the Static
“My trouble is that I think there is a track that things should stay on. I'm hooked to a belief that life should go a certain way. I develop an attachment to Plan A and set up my expectations accordingly. An important part of spiritual practice is to learn to let go, to recognize that Plan A exists only in my head.”
“It could be the sound of each name he knows/curling to ash in his chest’s aortic furnace one after another, year after year instructing him/in the patient work of letting go. Even still/there are things it is reluctant to unclasp./How the Osage orange trunks and bare limbs/glow in the scattered light like veins of fire.”
“It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please…be selective.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“My heart didn’t break into a thousand pieces after he left. Instead, I realized all the things he didn’t do. He didn’t want to hear my stories. He didn’t ask me questions. He didn’t smile when I was talking to him. He didn’t hug me out of the blue to make me feel good. His hugs were always a preamble to something else and after he was gone, I wondered if he ever knew me at all.”
“Happily Single is holding out for the best and letting go of the rest. It’s saying “I will and I can” to YOURSELF before you say “I do” to someone else.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“When God requires us to surrender one dream, it’s because He wants to hand us a bigger and better one.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“TRUST that if they strayed from your path – they DO NOT belong there. Not everybody can go where you’re going.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“You're absolved," I tell him.
He brings his eyes back up to mine. There's no fucking way he knows what that word means. That's a word I dream someone will say to me.
So I put it in his language. "You're free.”
Source: Teeth