Philippa Gregory Quotes

No matter how many times I tell you this, you're still thinking, thinking, judging, judging, coming to conclusions, trying to work out your life. You have to let go. Totally, absolutely, completely. You have to let go so completely that you will feel no body, no mind, no pain, nothing.

Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it.

The more you feel like you need to fix something, the more you need to not.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.

The next time you have a thought... let it go.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about the way people want to write about me. I just try and concentrate on my work and do that as well as I can.

You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.

Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.

The Master observes the world, but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. His heart is as open as the sky.

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.

Teach us to care and not to care

Accept what comes to you totally & completely so that you can appreciate it, learn from it & then let it go.

Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.

What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?

To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.

Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.

[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)

Become alert about desire and non-attachment begins to appear. This is not to be made to happen, it follows naturally from awareness of attachment. Each one of us has to become aware of his attachments, and keep being so! Nothing should be done unconsciously.

Let yourself go with dis-ease, be with it, and keep it company. This is the way to be rid of it.