Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.
True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.
I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.
I have no enemies and no hatred. None of the police who monitored, arrested, and interrogated me, none of the prosecutors who indicted me, and none of the judges who judged me are my enemies.
When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.
Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
You can laugh, you can cry, you can express yourself, but please don’t hurt each other!
What other people think of me is their problem - not mine.
Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.
I do feel like I have the superpower of not caring about my body as an actor.
Never have anything to do with likes and dislikes. The absence of what one likes is painful, as is the presence of what one dislikes. Therefore don't take a liking to anything. To lose what one likes is hard, but there are no bonds for those who have no likes and dislikes. From preference arises sorrow, from preference arises fear, but he who is freed from preference has no sorrow and certainly no fear.
All the stuff that keeps you safe from feeling scary emotions? They also keep you from feeling the good emotions. You have to shake those off. You have to become vulnerable.
Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you.
In true love, you attain freedom.
The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
In order to live the life we desire, and set the intention for greater happiness and more meaningful connections with others, we have to release the hold that our past has on us
It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love affirms the other as other. It does not possess and manipulate another as mine.
Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.
Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
If you love someone, set them free.
Forgiving someone does not mean you condone their behavior. The act of forgiveness takes place in your own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person. The reality of true forgiveness lies in setting ourselves free from holding on to the pain. It is simply an act of releasing yourself from the negative energy.
The most true-love words are not the ones that grasp and hold and bind you, twisting you both up together in some black dance. No, they are ones that leave you free to stand alone on your own solid ground, leave him to do the same, a tender space between you.
