Best letting-go & effort Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When we let go of wanting something else to happen in this moment, we are taking a profound step toward being able to encounter what is here now. If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing—a knowing that comes directly from the cultivation of mindfulness—we may only go in circles, for all our efforts and expectations. So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.”

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

“I would have government defend the life and property of all citizens equally; protect all willing exchange; suppress and penalize all fraud, all misrepresentation, all violence, all predatory practices; invoke a common justice under law; and keep the records incidental to these functions. Even this is a bigger assignment than governments, generally, have proven capable of. Let governments do these things and do them well. Leave all else to men in free and creative effort.”

“But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.”

Trying Mind Effort Watches Letting Go Ego Thinker Interfere Disappearance

Book:This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience

Source: This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience

“Women can be pressured to be perfect in many ways. And in our efforts to be "responsible" in every way, you might lose time and energy. If you truly want to direct [a film], you may have to let go of pleasing everyone on a consistent basis.”

Ifs Way Want May Might Film Energy Loses Perfect Effort Letting Go Direct Bases Responsible Consistent Being Responsible Time And Energy Pressured Pleasing Everyone

Author:Jennifer Phang

“It's challenging as an actor to let go but I had some pleasure out of it too. To not have the effort of having to present myself is quite liberating.”

Actors Challenges Pleasure Effort Letting Go Liberating

Author:Juliette Binoche

“The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. The greatest precept is continual awareness. The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything. The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways. The greatest magic is transmuting the passions. The greatest generosity is non-attachment. The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind. The greatest patience is humility. The greatest effort is not concerned with results. The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go. The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.”

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”

Thinking May Sometimes Strong Walks Effort Path Keys Letting Go Holding On Unlocking Continuous Effort

Author:Winston Churchill

“During these unstable times, let go of any fear or insecurity in your emotions. Look for new ways that you can be rewarded for your efforts. Believe in yourself and your ability to create new streams of income. Rather than continuing in a season of fear, let this be a time to transition into a season of creative success!”

Way Believe Looks Ability Effort Emotion Creative Letting Go Seasons Income Streams Believe In Yourself Insecurity Transition Continuing New Ways Believe In You Unstable

Author:Barbara Wentroble

“Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about. I am the greater fool of the two of us. I go on eating out my heart and poisoning every moment of my life in the attempt to rouse people's sensibilities. At least if I could do it with closed eyes. The irony is I see the futility of my efforts and yet I can't let go.”

“There are some who live by every rule and cling tightly to their rectitude because they fear being swept away by a tempest of passion, and there are others who cling to the rules because they fear that there is no passion there at all, and that if they let go they would simply remain where they are, foolish and unmoved; and they could bear that least of all. Living a life of iron control lets them pretend to themselves that only by the mightiest effort of will can they hold great passions at bay.”

Ifs Passion Effort Bears Letting Go Foolish Iron Live By Tempest Swept Away Great Passion Rectitude

Book:The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

Source: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

“It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory.”

Love Life Happiness Memories Effort Huge Letting Go Free Yourself

Author:Paulo Coelho

“In meditation take care not to impose anything on the mind, or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no effort to control, and no attempt to be peaceful. Don't be overly solemn or feel that you are taking part in some special ritual; let go even of the idea that you are meditating. Let your body remain as it is, your breath as you find it, and remain in your natural condition of unchanging pure awareness.”

Feels Should Mind Ideas Body Care Natural Effort Meditation Special Conditions Awareness Pure Letting Go Taxes Breaths Take Care Your Body Peaceful Ritual Solemn Meditating Unchanging

Author:Sogyal Rinpoche

“The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.”

People Men Has Beens Reason Christian Church Effort Letting Go Roots Salvation Preaching Heresy Christian Church Schism

Author:John Ruskin

“I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.”

Thinking Trying Speak Effort Perspective Involved Limits Letting Go Capacity Bigger Ongoing Capacity To Love Trying To Let Go

Author:Meg Ryan

“I have, by God’s grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God’s mercy, which does not leave me to overcome my sin by my own effort, so I have something to say to the fellow-sufferer who does not know where to look for hope. And what I have to say depends utterly on my willingness not to let go of that awareness of myself that reminds me where I start each day—not as a finished saint but as a needy person still struggling to grow.”

Source: Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another

“If you practice Yoga for small, selfish reasons, you will remain the same, bound by your beliefs about what you can and cannot do. Let go and offer your effort to limitless potential. Dedicate yourself to the happiness of all beings.”

Ifs Reason Belief Effort Practice Offers Letting Go Yoga Bounds Selfish Limitless Limitless Potential Selfish Reasons

Book:Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul

Source: Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul

“The greatest step towards a life of happiness and simplicity is to let go. Trust in the power that is already taking care of you spontaneously without effort.”

Care Effort Steps Letting Go Simplicity

Author:Mooji

“Perseverance is more than endurance." It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen. Perseverance means more than just hanging on, which may only be exposing our fear of letting go and falling. Perseverance is our supreme effort of refusing to believe that our hero is going to be conquered.”

Believe May Mean Happens Fall Effort Hero Letting Go Absolutes Perseverance Supreme Certainty Endurance Assurance Exposing Hanging On

Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

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