Taisen Deshimaru Quotes

Opening your hands will set you free.

Time is about the need to control. Let go of control and embrace what happens.

Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.

Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.

Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

I don't believe there is any point in holding on to too many things in life.

I don't like closed systems.

Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

Our impulse as people is to try to control; as an actor, you have to give up that control.

There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

I'm learning not to hold on so tightly to my solitude. It's not an economical way to work. A driver would call it 'white-knuckling.' If you're holding on to the wheel so tightly, it's gonna lock up your driving. Releasing myself from trying to control everything has been part of growing up.

I started to let go and seeing that there are no rules.

Control is not real, and I'm really understanding that every day. It's about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.

Open your hands if you want to be held.

Dive headfirst into things without being too attached to the results

You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.

Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.

Even if the steering wheel fits, you don't have to keep gripping it.

Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.

The dungeon image helped. "You need to let Maximus go," I stated, my voice stronger now. "No. Wine?