"The sage's indifference corresponds to a complete transformation of his relation to the world."

-- Pierre Hadot

"Letting go does not mean not having."

-- Cheri Huber

"The secret of life is knowing what you can live without."

-- Mable Gunther

"Thy lot or portion of life is seeking after thee; therefore be at rest from seeking after it."

-- The Caliph Ali

"My power of detachment measures the whole of my freedom, the whole of my possibility of happiness, the whole of my possible originality, the whole depth and reach of my morality and of my human contribution."

-- Newton Dillaway

"We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives anytime, in the blink of an eye."

-- Carlos Castaneda

"Your confidence that your capacity to experience joy is internal and indestructible grows as you let go of joyful experiences and find that they are replaced by others even more wonderful."

-- Martha Beck

"When you let go of attachment to the outcome, you have more emotional energy to focus on your actions, and whatever you are doing will release that equanimity, that joy back to you."

-- Srikumar S. Rao

"Season's first tea fire

hanging scroll

Nothing to possess."

-- Mitsu Suzuki

"Abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme happiness."

-- Bhagavad Gita

"If you realize that all things change, there is nothing that you will try to hold on to."

-- Lao Tzu

"The things that are really for thee gravitate to thee."

-- Emerson

"If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life."

-- Wu-Men

"And, incidentally, when you let go of your resistance, not only does the suffering diminish, but your ability to change the situation dramatically improves."

-- Ben Langley

"The less credence we give to our minds ongoing activity, the more we detach from identifying with that activity, the less it wears us out."

-- Brad Blanton

"Attachment is the greatest fabricator of illusion; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached."

-- Simone Weil

"Only in seeing and dropping unequivocally everything that divides us can there be freedom."

-- Toni Packer

"Good men, at all times, surrender in truth all attachments."

-- Buddha

"We need in love to practice only this: letting go of each other."

-- Rainer Marie Rilke

"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."

-- John, Duke of Berry