Mattie Naythons

“The philosophy of nonattachment is based in the understanding that holding on too tightly to those things, which in any case are always going to be slipping through our fingers, hurts and gives us rope burn. This is the secret of letting go. Holding on with a control-freak type of grip—as if any of us are really totally in charge—simply keeps us stuck and costs us our freedom. Therefore it is in our higher self-interest to let go a little, as appropriate, and enjoy things as they come and go without overly investing in their permanence or lasting reality.”
― Surya Das, Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be: Lessons on Change, Loss, and Spiritual Transformation

“Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Let Go or Get Dragged.”
― Surya Das, Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be: Lessons on Change, Loss, and Spiritual Transformation

“Our blood that flows through our veins,” a young woman once told me, “is no different from the water that flows through the arteries of life, the rivers of the land.”
― Wade Davis, Magdalena: River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia