Letting Go Again Quotes

“See," she said,
"I can hold on to you while everything else changes."
And she thought she was safe
and so, in that safety, could face whatever was
to come.

And then all of a sudden that you is gone--
that person, that family, that home,
that job (maybe even that occupation), maybe even
that country, that world--
and there's nothing to hold onto at all,
and that self, that life, is gone as well,
and yet more self--truer self--than ever before.
And how can that all be so true
at the same time?
And yet it is.”
― Shellen Lubin

“See,' she said,
'I can hold on to you while everything else changes.'
And she thought she was safe
and so, in that safety, could face whatever was
to come.

And then all of a sudden that you is gone--
that person, that family, that home,
that job (maybe even that occupation), maybe even
that country, that world--
and there's nothing to hold onto at all,
and that self, that life, is gone as well,
and yet more self--truer self--than ever before.
And how can that all be so true
at the same time?
And yet it is.”
― Shellen Lubin

“It is the nature of life,
the world, that nothing
tangible,
nothing holding us up and leading us forward in this dance
can be counted on.”
― Shellen Lubin

“I sit now, as I have before, with the question of balance,
balance between
hanging on (planning, setting goals and expectations)
and letting go (complete presence, in the moment, no attachment
to any one way).

Do they have to be in contradiction?
Yes.
Can they be contradictory co-existing realities?
Yes, yes, definitely.
But only only only
when we balance them through fullness,
allowing them to co-exist,
letting the plans and goals in deeply,
but not clutching them for dear life,
and allowing the results of the process
to be what they are,
as they continue to affect the plans and goals,
and us...

And so begin again
again again
hold on again
let go again
again again
all at the same time.”
― Shellen Lubin