Below are the best quotes we could find featuring elizabeth gilbert about letting go.
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Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death.
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Letting go, of course, is a scary enterprise for those of us who believe that the world revolves only because it has a handle on the top of it which we personally turn, and that if we were to drop this handle for even a moment, well—that would be the end of the universe.
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Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.
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By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.
This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don’t have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down.
At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
Your wish for resolution was a prayer. You being here is God’s response. Let go and watch the stars came out, in the inside and in the outside.
You have just climbed up and above the roof, there is nothing between you and the Infinite; now, let go.
When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It’s safe. Let go.
It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.
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