Releasing Quotes

When we can accept reality as it is and are okay with it without needing to change it, we then can begin to take steps toward creating a brighter reality for ourselves and others, coming from a place of understanding. But when we are motivated to change reality due to our discomfort with it, we do not think clearly. The reason that there is so much suffering in the world is because people are too busy judging everyone and everything, and through the judgments they perpetuate the suffering. People are so focused on changing outside conditions, all the while forgetting the judgment and separation within their own heart.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

A label locks me into a definition that people use to control me. A vision graces me with an idea that serves to release me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I invite each of you to let go of your fears for just one day and say YES to life… say YES to love… say YES to You! You can always go back to saying ‘no’ another day.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Like a sponge, we absorb, not liquid, but energy. Each morning we wake up as a fresh, dry sponge, ready to take in the world around us. Throughout the day, we interact with people, various energies, and a range of vibration. Each time, we absorb energy – either a small amount or a great deal – depending on whether the contact is direct or residual. And when we are filled to the point that we can absorb no more, we sometimes feel like we might explode. We know this bursting point – it reveals itself in our over-stimulated, over-stressed, near-crazy minds. Sleep often releases the energetic buildup, yet meditation works just as well. Meditation throughout the day “wrings out” our soggy, spongy selves. Deliberate mindfulness in the present moment can keep us from absorbing things we don’t resonate with, so that we no longer reach the point of mental breakdowns or emotional overloads.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Peace never hurries. To rush or force is contradictory to the very essence of peace.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Brightly burning passion is the releasing of your essence, your specialness and your gifts to the world.

~ Bryant Mcgill

To let something go is to participate in a much greater dance that we call life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The factory of love encompasses all, but on some days, does it seem to be one of suffocation, squeezing its target too tightly? And on other days not tight enough? Or maybe that is the breath of a living love knowing when to protect, when to release, and when to protect again. For we are the products of an active love - the Father the creator, the Son the perfecter, the Spirit the supervisor - but just like in a factory, to deny the process is to ultimately create a defect of oneself.

~ Criss Jami

When you eliminate the Ego's intense desire to be correct, the clarity of the moment can come through. How simple is that?

~ Beth Johnson

The Glory of this life is in viewing it as eternal.

~ Beth Johnson

If you find yourself unwilling to share, you are cheating yourself.

~ Beth Johnson

Tightness takes more energy than the letting go.

~ Beth Johnson

Forgiveness means that you will not allow a temporary event to have “forever” repercussions.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now.

~ Frederick Dodson

Witches release the chapters of the past, which invites the novels of the future.

~ Dacha Avelin

Life is not about control or making things happen in the ways we think they should happen. In fact, it's rather arrogant for us to be on this planet that's been here for so long and expect to be able to control life on it. If we want to see changes, then our task is to set things in motion, not to micromanage and make them happen in the ways we think they should. If we have something that is possessing us, such as alcohol or our television sets or our cell phones, then it could be time to let it go and move on with our lives. If we're holding on to resentment and anger, we're simply raising our own stress levels and blood pressure, but we're not contributing anything positive to the situation--and it's time to let it go.

~ Tom Walsh

Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size of a gift, it is its quality and the amount of mental attachment you overcome that count. So don't bankrupt yourself on a momentary positive impulse, only to regret it later. Give thought to giving. Give small things, carefully, and observe the mental processes going along with the act of releasing the little thing you liked. (53)(Quote is actually Robert A F Thurman but Huston Smith, who only wrote the introduction to my edition, seems to be given full credit for this text.)

~ Huston Smith

When you have done your part it's time to release your work into the universe and let it do its part.

~ Maria Erving

Herein lies the paradox: If you want more of whatever it is you desire, you have to first prove to the universe that you are capable of having it by developing a consciousness that affirms there is no shortage of it. The only way to do this is by creating a vacuum or space for it to be received, and the only way you can create a space for it to be received is by letting go of what you do have, trusting that the universe knows what it is doing. That's the law of circulation in action.

~ Dennis Merritt Jones

Fear and guilt are your enemies. If you let go of fear, fear lets go of you. If you release guilt, guilt will release you. How do you do that? By choosing to. It's that simple.

~ Donald L. Hicks

Every worker should know that by working, he is releasing the nature of God in him. He is becoming creative just like God is creative.

~ Sunday Adelaja