Instructions for freedom": 1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions. 2. You have just climbed up and above the roof, there is nothing between you and the Infinite; now, let go. 3. The day is ending, it's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, let go. 4. Your wish for resolution was a prayer. You are being here is God's response, let go and watch the stars came out, in the inside and in the outside. 5. With all your heart ask for Grace and let go. 6. With all your heart forgive him, forgive yourself and let him go. 7. Let your intention be freedom from useless suffering then, let go. 8. Watch the heat of day pass into the cold night, let go. 9. When the Karma of a relationship is done, only Love remains. It's safe, let go. 10. When the past has past from you at last, let go.. then, climb down and begin the rest of your life with great joy.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Related The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is be... ELIZABETH GILBERT Smile don't frown Look up don't look down Believe in yourself Don't let yourself go KIRSTIE ALLEY When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. ... ELIZABETH GILBERT When you are in troubled and worried and sick at heart And your plans are upset and your world ... HELEN STEINER RICE Let her go!" That was a new voice, young but full of authority. ... There was Prince Maxon. ...... KIERA CASS to live in this world you must be able to do three things to love what is morta... MARY OLIVER We always live in the tommorow,which never comes and which cannot come; it is impossible. That which... OSHO Exactly when will you give up? When things will seem out of your hands ? When ... SANHITA BARUAH there comes a time when you have to let go all the words all the teaching and tr... BILLY DOYLE Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go... LAMA SURYA DAS Let your intention be freedom from useless suffering. Then, let go. ELIZABETH GILBERT Let us go where skins are rainbows Enhanced by every hue. Where genders are clouds KAMAND KOJOURI Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight That yet... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let g... ROBERT FROST Remember The Dream You have a choice Your heart will know You gotta look back s... JAMES INGRAM If you love something, let it go. If you don't love something, definitely let it go. Basic... B.J. NOVAK The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is be... ELIZABETH GILBERT Come, sir, come, I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love. Look, here I have you, thus... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let me show you how beautiful life is, Let me take away all your pain; Let me rekindle you... ANAMIKA MISHRA Let go, let life, and enjoy the journey…! JAMES A. MURPHY Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen! JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Sometimes you must let go of your pride and do what is asked of us. Anakin Skywalker, Epi... GEORGE LUCAS My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it clin... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like... JOHN GREEN ROSE: I love you, Jack. JACK: No...don’t say your goodbyes, Rose. Don’t you give up. ... JAMES FRANCIS CAMERON Clear out the past, layout the present and prepare for a much better and brighter future. OMOAKHUANA ANTHONIA Let your wisdom guide you On your own personal journey By listening to your heart Yo... KAREN HACKEL i am in need of a sudden Shift, Your crimson lips. screaming at my Lips. Let me hold down ... SYED MURTAZA HAROON If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to... AMIT RAY You realize you've forgiven people, your past and yourself when you don't speak bad about them anymo... SANHITA BARUAH If you are longing for something more than the hit-and-run relationship cycle, something beautiful a... ERIC LUDY So I take a deep breath. Step forward. Let go. 10 seconds and I'm trying to bre... TAHEREH MAFI Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not fo... KAMAND KOJOURI For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, Let it change ... NICHOLAS A. BASBANES so sing, you birds for the fever is about to rise and the empty stalemate is over ... K.R. ALBERS For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always wit... KAHLIL GIBRAN I don't want another pretty face I don't want just anyone to hold I don't want my love to ... JESSE MCCARTNEY To A Squirrel At Kyle-Na-No Come play with me; Why should you run Through the s... W.B. YEATS You let go of my hand to hold on to my heart Distance grasps us tight now that we ar... MUNIA KHAN Let us roam then, you and I, When the evening is splayed out across the sky [...] Pat... HENRY N. BEARD Nothing is endless I know that now Let me go V -Violet's letter JESSICA SHIRVINGTON Now that lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room And twists one in her fi... T.S. ELIOT Teach me, Father, how to go Softly as the grasses grow; Hush my soul to meet the shock Of t... EDWIN MARKHAM When the sun sets like fire, I will think of you, when the moon casts its light, I... BRIAN JACQUES Sonnet LXXXI And now you're mine. Rest with your dream in my dream. Love and pain ... PABLO NERUDA Keep Moving... Move forward Let go Give in Decide and just Do Progres... EMMA DALEY For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into ... CORNELIA FUNKE Let today be the day you finally release yourself from the imprisonment of past grudges and anger. S... STEVE MARABOLI What you are trying to let go of ...is already gone. SANOBER KHAN Come to me. Why must you ruin this moment? You are burdened with thought. Burdened wi... KAMAND KOJOURI Let there be light! Abba! Father, let there be light! In our dark moments we cry; let there be ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, let ... PAUL MCCARTNEY Now you may hear songs of kindness From every singing bird And from every dancing heart<... DEBASISH MRIDHA Sometimes the only reason why you won't let go of someone making you sad is because he w... LILY AMIS My son, do not forget my teaching, But let your heart keep my commandments; For l... ANONYMOUS When you go, if you go, And I should want to die, there's nothing I'd be saved by EDWIN MORGAN You are the light in my darkness, Restful peace for my soul. You are the one who rescues m... LILY G BLUNT Tell me what it is that you are hiding behind your eyes. Tell me of the pain, so I can make it ... JOSé N. HARRIS If I can’t be your love, then let me be a simple brooch so I may rest a while against ... KAMAND KOJOURI When you leave, weary of me, without a word I shall gently let you go. KIM SOWOL Start by pulling him out of the fire and hoping that he will forget the smell. He was supp... CAITLYN SIEHL It offends me when you doubt my love. These jealousies are unwarranted. If only you lived ... KAMAND KOJOURI THE NAKED HEART From womb to tomb, There came and went - Only you. Poor or... SUZY KASSEM In Blackwater Woods Look, the trees are turning their own bodies in... MARY OLIVER You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the w... KAHLIL GIBRAN Let him forever go!-Let him not, Charmian. Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon, Th... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light, a... MARY OLIVER It is not okay to ‘live and let live,’ to let ‘bygones be bygones,’ to ‘forgive and forget... BEVERLY ENGEL I HOLD If I could have had him, I could have let him go. COCO J. GINGER Just let me wait a little while longer, Under your window in the quite snow. Let me stand ... POLLY SHULMAN I wish in the city of your heart you would let me be the street where you walk when you ar... ROBLEY WILSON Let go of your disappointments, mistakes and failures. May you find complete healing, renewed ... LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every bre... LAUREN OLIVER He is not a tame lion," said Tirian. "How should we know what he would do? We, who are murderers. Je... C.S. LEWIS O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning. ANNE SEXTON When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go. ELIZABETH GILBERT Woman, where are they? Has no one judged you guilty?" She answers "No one, sir." Then Jesu... MAX LUCADO THE NAKED HEART From womb to tomb, There came and went - Only you. P... SUZY KASSEM Breath deeply, this breath is your life. Enjoy the moment, this moment is your life. Love ... DEBASISH MRIDHA Percy let me go, she croaked. You can't pull me up. Never RICK RIORDAN You asked why I couldn't forgive you. It was because you were the love of my life. And you didn... KRISTAN HIGGINS When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, ... ROBERT FROST Glossa Time goes by, time comes along, All is old and all is new; What is righ... MIHAI EMINESCU Star light, Star bright I wish upon the stars tonight… I whispered your name to a ... N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN Let your work speak, Let your work scream, Let your work live, Forever. AKASH LAKHOTIA Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on. SARAH DESSEN Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on. SARAH DESSEN At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, le... ELIZABETH GILBERT Sow the seeds of hard work and you will reap the fruits of success. Find something to do, do it with... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Let me breathe You in, Let me taste the meaning of sublime; Let my soul mingle with You, NEELAM SAXENA CHANDRA Yes it is,' said the Professor. 'Wait—' he motioned to Richard, who was about to go out again and ... DOUGLAS ADAMS Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure ar... DOREEN VALIENTE Only when you learn to let go the past, you begin healing. So, learn to let go of things and accept ... BHAWANA JAIN What if they don’t let us go through?” I ask, trying not to move my lips. “They will,”... SUSAN EE Decide. Take one of the most unsettling things you feel exist in your life and decide. DAVID AULT Who was it that hurt you, stole light out of your eyes? Cut a hole in your heart and ... JOHN MARK GREEN Let the wind blow, lad Let fall the deep snow, Let the stars fall, lad we'll answer ... JENNIFER A. NIELSEN I would like to sing someone to sleep, to sit beside someone and be there. I would like to... RAINER MARIA RILKE Let go of your perceived control, and let the unknown turn you on. PRESTON SMILES
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ELIZABETH GILBERT Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' whic... ELIZABETH GILBERT I was suffering the easily foreseeable consequences. Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-... ELIZABETH GILBERT [Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and o... ELIZABETH GILBERT I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimac... ELIZABETH GILBERT Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclus... ELIZABETH GILBERT stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be... ELIZABETH GILBERT He showed me a sketch he'd drawn once during meditation. It was an androgynous human figure, standin... ELIZABETH GILBERT The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things th... ELIZABETH GILBERT The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this p... ELIZABETH GILBERT You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face. ELIZABETH GILBERT Moreover, I have boundary issues with men. Or maybe that’s not fair to say. To have issues with bo... ELIZABETH GILBERT Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, ... ELIZABETH GILBERT He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.... You can... ELIZABETH GILBERT The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, w... ELIZABETH GILBERT One year, Alma bought Prudence- who liked to draw flowers (beautifully, though not 'accurately')- a ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have...undressed in front of a gentleman has he ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely express... ELIZABETH GILBERT What worked yesterday doesn't always work today. ELIZABETH GILBERT This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe r... ELIZABETH GILBERT In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back people in this world who sustain ou... ELIZABETH GILBERT Alma had grown as tall as a man by now, with broad shoulders. ... This need not have necessarily pre... ELIZABETH GILBERT We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Pardon me, sir," Prudence said, directing her words and her placid gaze precisely at Professor Peck,... ELIZABETH GILBERT There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that... ELIZABETH GILBERT When it comes to developing a worldview, we tend to face this false division: Either you are a reali... ELIZABETH GILBERT People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weath... ELIZABETH GILBERT I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productiv... ELIZABETH GILBERT This food won't be wasted; after the offering ceremony, Balinese families are always allowed to eat ... ELIZABETH GILBERT But doesn't that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed... infinite? That even the most holy... ELIZABETH GILBERT I got to tell you, I think (deifying artists) was a huge error. You know, I think that allowing some... ELIZABETH GILBERT I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as t... ELIZABETH GILBERT The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot g... ELIZABETH GILBERT