
What Autumn Can Teach Us About Letting Go
“Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long…[l]et it all pass. Let it go.”
“Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long…[l]et it all pass. Let it go.”
“We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy’s fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, begging for pennies from every passerby, unaware that his fortune was right under him the whole time.”
“If you feel unloved, it is not because you’re not loved; it’s because you are not believing by faith and receiving from Him the love that He is pouring out on you even now.”
“The person God loves with the tenderness of a Father, the person he wants to touch and to transform with his love, is not the person we’d have liked to be or ought to be. It’s the person we are.”
“Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. What they say, what they do, and the opinions they give are according to the agreements they have in their own minds.”
“Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart.”
“All of life…invites us into the experience of radical amazement that is a doorway to the divine.”