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“Humour allows us to see that ultimately things don't make sense. The only thing that truly makes sense is letting go of anything we continue to hold on to. Our ego-mind and emotions are a dramatic illusion. Of course, we all feel that they're real: my drama, your drama, our confrontations. We create these elaborate scenarios and then react to them. But there is nothing really happening outside our mind! This is karma's cosmic joke. You can laugh about the irony of this, or you can stick with your scenario. It's your choice.”

“One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, you have to let go of it.”

World Writing Courses Letting Go Complicated Narcissism Sail

Author:Bill Ayers

“I was taking my advance freefall course, doing my level 1 jump. My heart was racing. Like I said, I have a lot of fear with falling, so I panicked. Then I let go of the door of the airplane and kind of panicked the entire way. But after a few jumps I grew more calm, realized what was going on, and I think that was the key. The more calm I got, the more relaxed I was.”

Thinking Way Heart Kind Said Fall Courses Levels Doors Keys Grew My Heart Letting Go Calm Racing Airplane Relaxed

Author:Dean Potter

“Are there bears in these mountains?" he asked. His companion nodded. "Of course. But it's a bit early in the year for them to be moving around. Why?" Halt let go a long breath. "Just a vague hope, really. There's a chance that when the Temujai here you crashing around in the trees, they might think you're a bear." Erak smiled, with his mouth only. His eyes were as cold as the snow. "You're a very amusing fellow," he told Halt. "I'd like to brain you with my ax one of these days." "If you could manage to do it quietly, I'd almost welcome it," Halt said.”

“You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.” His blue eyes were dark with understanding — of course Will would understand.”

“The thing I was most proud of about today's round was that on this course everybody is going to make mistakes, but sometimes it's hard to forget about it and let it go. After I made a double on 1, I was able to be patient and let it go and came back with birdies on 3 and 5. When I bogeyed 6, I was able to let it go and come back with a birdie on 8. I was able to let go of some bad shots and forget about it and move on.”

Made Sometimes Hard Today Able Moving Courses Forget Mistake Proud Letting Go Shots Golf Patient Rounds Making Mistakes Be Patient Let It Go

Author:Phil Mickelson

“It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.”

Art Courses Next Mistake Goes On Letting Go Ashamed Conceited

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“Just do two things: meditate, watch your thought processes; become just a spectator of your mind. That is meditation, becoming a witness. And second: follow the law, follow the natural course. Don't be unnatural, don't try to fight with nature - stop being a fighter. Learn how to relax with nature, learn to let go. Flow with nature, allow nature to possess you totally.”

Trying Mind Two Law Fighting Courses Process Natural Watches Meditation Becoming Letting Go Flow Fighter Witness Two Things Relax Spectators Unnatural Thought Process Learn To Let Go

Author:Rajneesh

“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.'”

Ifs Said Self Use Courses Grows Understanding Compassion Minutes Acceptance Masters Letting Go Angry Self Acceptance Compassionate Let It Go Zen Master

Book:Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

Source: Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

“The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.”

World Courses Letting Go Interfere Tao Te Ching Leadership

Book:道德经

Source: 道德经

“The decision to let go of that which has completed its course in your experience is even more important than the decision to welcome new ideas. You cannot walk forward by looking backward. New wine cannot be put into old bottles, for the Bible states that the old bottles will break. You intuitively know what should depart from your life.”

Knows Should Important Ideas States Courses Decision Walks Break Letting Go Wine Welcome Bottles New Ideas Looking Back

Book:The Power of Decision: A Step-By-Step Program to Overcome Indecision and Live Without Failure Forever

Source: The Power of Decision: A Step-By-Step Program to Overcome Indecision and Live Without Failure Forever

“One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic - something or other which we do not possess. Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go. You decide to learn a language, study music, take a course of reading, train yourself physically. Will it be success or failure? It depends upon how much pluck and perseverance that word decide contains. The decision that nothing can overrule, the grip that nothing can detach will bring success.”

Thinking Courses Reading Language Decision Mistake Study Magic Depends Genius Letting Go Train Perseverance Dues Holding On Pluck Success Or Failure Perseverence

Book:Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“Speakers find joy in public speaking when they realize that a speech is all about the audience, not the speaker. Most speakers are so caught up in their own concerns and so driven to cover certain points or get a certain message across that they can't be bothered to think in more than a perfunctory way about the audience. And the irony is, of course, that there is no hope of getting your message across if that's all the energy you put into the audience. So let go, and give the moment to the audience.”

Ifs Thinking Way Giving Moments Joy Certain Courses Energy Realizing Audience Letting Go Speech Messages Concern Caught Driven Irony Speakers Caught Up Bothered Public Speaking No Hope

Author:Nick Morgan