Letting Go Is Not Giving Up | the Long Way Around

dea for Impact: You are Rich If You Think You Have Enough

Put the value of money and the pursuit of wealth in perspective.

Money is an opportunity for happiness. Money allows you to do what you please. But don’t fall into the trap of thinking that more money and more material goods will unavoidably make you more happy. A certain amount of money will... See more

We need to let it go, let our life flow through our hands like a river and not try to grab some piece of it and hold on to it. Just to be present with it and find out how to express our vow in this moment, in this circumstance, right where we are right now, instead of trying to figure out how to make it the way we want so that it’ll be just what we

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Letting go is an ongoing practice, one that can bring us a lot of happiness. When a Vietnamese woman who escaped her country by boat was robbed on the high seas of all her gold, she was so distraught that she contemplated suicide. But on shore, she met a man who had been robbed of even his clothes, and it helped her very much to see him smiling. He

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Attachment is Stress, Letting Go is Peace. The tension you feel in your mind is a sign of attachment. The mind often avoids the present moment so that it can swim in the memories of the past or the cravings of the future. Even when it is focusing on the present it will often do so through the lens of comparison. Craving what is not in front of you ... See more

In The Art of Living, the Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c. 50-135 AD) wrote: Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and cannot control that in

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