Esther Hicks Quotes

When the circumstances are right, everything becomes a dance.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.

Life? You can't manipulate it or bend it to your will. You have no choice but to roll with it.

Things change. I used to have a real resistance to it and hold on to things, but let things happen and go with it, and you will actually go through it, and it's a lot less stressful.

Surrender is working with what happens.

Life is a mystery: you've just got to go with it.

Everything happens just like it's supposed to happen; you've just got to roll with it and keep moving forward.

Let go of your expectations. The universe will do what it will. Sometimes your dreams will come true. Sometimes they won't. Sometimes when you let go of a broken dream, another one gently takes its place. Be aware of what is, not what you would like to be, taking place.

Do not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure.

The stream of passing years is like a river with people being carried along in the current. Some are swept along, protesting, fighting all the way, trying to swim back up the stream, longing for the shores that they have passed, clutching at anything to retard their progress, frightened by the onward rush of the strong current and in danger of being overwhelmed by the waters. Others go with the current freely, trusting themselves to the buoyancy of the water.

Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.

The point is that something I thought was perfect has been broken, and I'm having to find the beauty in what is there instead of what I thought was there. Like this shell. I can either spend all my time wishing it were perfect, trying to imagine it the way it was or might have been, or I can see how beautiful it is just like this.

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment

One of the secrets to life is saying yes to change and allowing things to transition, but I also think you have to mark the time and give thanks for all that it gave you.

You will find it easiest to ride the avalanche in the direction it already travels.

I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.

Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

Don't try to steer the river.

But sometimes there’s nothing left to do but move on.

The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors.

It's always necessary to know when a stage of one's life has ended. If you stubbornly cling to it after the need has passed, you lose the joy and meaning of the rest. And you risk being shaken to your senses by God.

When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment