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“For being human, we remember and forget. We stray and return, fall down and get up, and cling and let go, again and again. But it is this straying and returning that makes life interesting, this clinging and letting go - damned as it is - that exercises the heart.”

Humans Heart Remember Fall Forget Interesting Return Exercise Letting Go Down And Get Up Again And Again Being Human Falling Down Clinging

Book:The Exquisite Risk: Daring to Live an Authentic Life

Source: The Exquisite Risk: Daring to Live an Authentic Life

“When the Forbidden Fruit was handed to Adam and Eve, they were allowed the moral choice to accept or decline. I know people who have refused to feast on the money tree. They live simply, within their means, and seem far more content than those who are trying to horde their wealth while clinging to the ladder of 'success,' terrified to let go. That isn't real living. The Puritans rightly saw that as covetousness.”

“How many boys like him were out there in the ether, holding on to their big brothers and sisters who were still alive? How many husbands were floating between life and death, clinging to their wives in this world? And how may millions and millions of people were there in the world like Charlie who wouldn't let go of their loved ones when they're gone?”

Source: Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel

“He tasted deeper, holding himself over me, and suddenly he was everywhere; his knee trapping my leg, his lips grazing warm, rough, sensuous. He splayed his hand at the small of my back, holding me tightly, driving me to sink my fingers deeper into him, clinging to him as if letting go would mean losing part of myself.”

Ifs Mean Hands Letting Go Losing Fingers Lips Deeper Legs Warm Driving Knees Rough Clinging Sensuous Grazing Patch And Nora

Book:Silence

Source: Silence

“I worry hope will crush me, the way love has so many times before. Are they so different, hope and love? O & E in the same place, half of the other in each word. Both swimming in unknowns. I’ve been through the big changes. These ones should seem easier in comparison, I should be more prepared, but they don’t and I’m not. Sometimes I feel like a broken-wing butterfly, clinging to a window screen. Afraid to let go. Afraid to stay. Wondering how much wing is enough to fly.”

“The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.”

Inspirational Past Spirit Emotion Letting Go Forgiveness Disappointment Release Moving On Clinging Grudge Letting Go And Moving On Just Let Go Knowledge Of The Past Letting Go Of Anger

Author:Jack Kornfield

“If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.”

Ifs Belief Letting Go Have Faith Clinging Belief In God

Book:The Wisdom of Insecurity

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“Can we just do this?” Ray asked tightly, clinging to Zheng’s already slightly elongated arm. Because Louis-Cesare wasn’t the only one with a master power around here. “Let go,” Zheng told him. “I’m the rubber band; you’re the spitball. And spitballs don’t hold on to rubber bands.” “Die in a fire,” Ray told him savagely. But he let go.”

Dies Fire Masters Arms Band Letting Go Rays Clinging Rubber Rubber Bands

Author:Karen Chance

“Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind. By letting go of even the thought 'I,' and 'me' what is left? There is nowhere to stand and no one to stand there. No separation anywhere. Pure awareness. Neither this, nor that. Just clarity and being.”

Mind Mean Left Meditation Awareness Pure Letting Go Separation Clarity Being Me Clinging

Author:Ram Dass

“In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'... The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out and letting go. You have to be without clinging.”

Mean Causes Power Virtue Awareness Fields Letting Go Clinging Tibetan Your Presence

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn't bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.”

Want Letting Go Satisfaction Deeper Clinging

Book:Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

“I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.”

Knows Dies Letting Go Currents Boredom Take Me Clinging

Author:Richard Bach

“See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.”

Feels Ideas Loses Learning Letting Go Dare Defeated Clinging

Book:The Secret of Letting Go

Source: The Secret of Letting Go