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The concept of letting go can be confusing to many of us. When are we doing too much or trying too hard to control people and outcomes? When are we doing too little? When is what we're doing an appropriate part of taking care of ourselves? What is our responsibility, and what isn't?

These issues can challenge us. Sometimes, we may let go so much that we neglect responsibility to others or ourselves. Other times, we may cross the line from taking care of ourselves to controlling others and outcomes.

There is no rulebook. But we don't have to make ourselves crazy; we don't have to be so afraid. We don't have to do it perfectly. If it feels like we need to do a particular action, we can do it. If no action feels timely or inspired, don't act on it.

Having and setting healthy limits - healthy boundaries - isn't a tidy process. We can give ourselves permission to experiment, to make mistakes, to learn, to grow.

We can talk to people, ask questions, and question ourselves. If there's something we need to do or learn, it will become apparent. Lessons don't go away. If we're not taking care of ourselves enough, well see that. If we are being too controlling, we'll grow to understand that too. Things will work out. The way will become dear.

Today, I will take actions that appear appropriate. I will let go of the rest. I will strive for the balance between self-responsibility, responsibility to others, and letting go.

Melody Beattie


It is our mission to honor the sacred. When the Guidance of Higher Power reveals itself to us, we are bound not just to document but to act upon it. Even if we don't see the whole path before us, we take the step we are given.

Mary Manin Morrissey



"It's particularly interesting that we think we have to fight to get love and fight to keep love. Fighting is painful! Loving is not, or at least it shouldn't be. Love is gentle, kind, sensitive and supportive. It is the conditions that we place on loving and being loved that make it a rough, tough show. It's what we do, not what love is, that makes us believe that love is painful. The corresponding belief is that the more I love, the more painful it will be. In order to avoid the pain, we believe we must fight to keep from getting hurt in love. It makes absolutely no sense! We must give up the fight in relationships if we want to be healed on our journey through love's house.

Iyanla Vanzant


Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed. It can be ignored. To the extent that we abandon love we will feel it has abandoned us. Denying love is our only problem, and embracing it is the only answer. Through the power of love, we can let go of past history and begin again. Love heals, forgives, and makes whole.

Ernest Holmes


We're all in place to do something of great magnitude and courage. It does not have to be anything of wide scope, or even something that a lot of people know about. It's about touching the lives of people that cross our path.

James Redfield


"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind."

William James

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.

Eckhart Tolle


At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.

Thich Nhat Hahn


There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.

Buddah


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Have you ever sat very quietly with closed eyes and watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you watched your mind working?or rather, has your mind watched itself in operation, just to see what your thoughts are, what your feelings are, how you look at the trees, at the flowers, at the birds, at people, how you respond to a suggestion or react to a new idea? Have you ever done this?

Jiddu Krishanamurti


When our actions create discord in another person, we, ourselves, in this lifetime or another, will feel that discord. Likewise, if our actions create harmony and empowerment in another, we also come to feel that harmony and empowerment.

Gary Zukhov


If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

Peace Pilgrim


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Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.

Marianne Williamson


Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others.

David Hawkins


The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.

Buddah