Quotes Tagged ‘letting go’

“Seven attitudinal factors constitute the major pillars of mindfulness practice as we teach it in the stress clinic. They are non-judging, patience, a beginner’s mind, trust, non-striving, acceptance, and letting go.”

by Jon Kabat-Zinn from Full Catastrophe Living
Tags: Full Catastrophe Living, Jon Kabat-Zinn, non-spiritual, acceptance, patience, stress, letting go, mindfulness

“Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don’t accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little you will have a little peace; if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace; if you let go completely you will have complete peace.”

by Ajahn Chah
Tags: peace, letting go, praise, clinging, attachment

“Letting go of hope is not fatalistic. Hope itself contains a lot of desperation and denial, so surrendering it is actually an opening.”

by Pema Chodron from Tonglen: the Path of Transformation
Tags: hope, letting go, denial, openness