Leo Buscaglia Quotes

The act of 'letting go' is actually very easy - it's effortless. Thinking about, talking about, and contemplating 'letting go' is hard.

There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.

Let go of everything. That is how you get everything; you let go of everything.

Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.

One must be able to let things happen.

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

Receive without conceit, release without struggle.

No need to choose; become choiceless. And whatsoever happens happens; whatsoever happens is good. Let things happen rather than trying to do, and you will be surprised that all ambiguity disappears. It is a by-product of the chooser's mind, the choosing mind, that creates ambiguity. Otherwise there is no dilemma. Negative and positive are perfectly balancing in life.

Until you can let go of everything, you will find it hard to hold onto anything.

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

To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

We can't escape from the world anymore; we can't escape from the mind. We need to enter surrender while we are in the world. That seems to be the path that is effective in the world that we live in now.

Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.

It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

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

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

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

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.

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

When I finish a job, I surrender it completely. I have to, because after that, it really is out of my hands.

So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.