Letting go

You cannot let go of anything if you cannot notice that you are holding it. Admit your 'weaknesses' and watch them morph into your greatest strengths.

Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need... I live more simply now, and with more peace.

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

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

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.'

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.

Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.

In any activity, we have to know what to expect, how to reach our objectives and what capacity we possess for the proposed task. The only people who can say they have renounced the fruit are those who, thus equipped, feel no desire for the results of the conquest, and remain absorbed in combat. You can renounce the fruit, but this renunciation does not mean indifference toward the result.

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own.