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As quiet as it is tonight
You almost think you were safe
Your eyes are full of surprises
They cannot predict my fate
Waiting underneath the stars
There's something you should know
The angels they surround my heart
Telling me to let you go
I barely couldn't
I barely couldn't recognize
But I played right into it
Who am I to criticize
Somehow I'll get through it
And you won't even realize
Falling for your own disguise
It's like over and over
You're pushing me right down to the floor
I should just walk away
Over and over I keep on coming back for more
I play into your fantasy
And now that it's over
You can lie to me right through your smile
I've seen behind your eyes
Now i'm sober, no more intoxicating my mind
Even the devil wouldn't recognize you,
I do
Even the devil wouldn't recognize you,
I do
Even the devil wouldn't recognize you,
I do
Even the devil wouldn't recognize you,
I do
I do, I do
You almost fooled yourself this time
That all the saints be praised
You hide your sadness behind your smile
And you keep your lost heartbreaks
The steps that edge along the ledge
Is much higher than it seems
But I've been on that ledge before
You can't hide yourself from me
I barely couldn't
I barely couldn't recognize
I still played right into it
Who am I to criticize
Somehow I'll get through it
And you won't even realize
Falling for your own disguise
It's like over and over
You're pushing me right down to the floor
I should just walk away
Over and over I keep on coming back for more
I play into your fantasy
And now that it's over
You can lie to me right through your smile
I've seen behind your eyes
Now i'm sober, no more intoxicating my mind
Even the devil wouldn't recognize you,
I do
Even the devil wouldn't recognize you,
I do
Even the devil wouldn't recognize you,
I do
Even the devil wouldn't recognize you,
I do, I do, I do
~madonna
To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny. - Alan Cohen
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Letting go doesn’t mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be. Only then you can carry on going forward.
It's Better To Own A Little And See The World, Than To Own The World And See Little
By Lauren Martin
Sept 19 2014
Life’s a paradox. We want to be rich, but we don’t want to spend our lives working for it. We want to have money, but want to live like we don’t need it. We want the world, but won’t make the leap to see it.
It’s this perpetual conversion of our wild, heartfelt ambitions into money-making practicalities that keep us in a perpetual state of unrest. It’s this tug-of-war between our desire to be rich and our desire to be free.
You can’t be both. You can’t possibly do what you want -- whenever you want -- without money. You can’t see the world without being imprisoned by it first. You can’t leave for greener pastures without mowing them first.
No life comes for free. Every person must pay his way. Every person must first add to society what he plans to take out later. How you decide to pay your way, however, is what defines you.
There are those who pay their way to get to something better, and those who do it and forget why they are doing it. There are the ones who get caught in the race, chaining themselves so tightly to the hamster wheel that they forget they can get off any time.
They get distracted by the stuff -- by all the stuff -- and that innate yearning for something more, something greater, becomes stifled below all the things they try and buy to make them happy. So because they can’t be doing what they want, they buy things to fill the emptiness.
It’s easy to get caught up in it all. It’s easy to forget what you’re working for and let your work become your life. It’s easy to forget what the point of it is; to forget why you’re working in the first place.
You need to remember why you were working so hard to make this money to begin with: to live. You want to see the world, taste every opportunity and try everything there is to offer.
You want to live a full life, one that's worth talking about; one that's worth remembering. You want to be free, completely unshackled from anyone telling you what to do and where to do it. Money isn’t your salvage, money is only a step to freedom.
Your true purpose in this world is to see it. It’s to use that money to see the world, to live life in it’s most basic form. It’s to experience everything that’s out there and understand what it truly means to live.
It means dying with the comfort of knowing that you led a full life, one worthy of the opportunity to experience it.
It’s not about the stuff you collected or the money you saved, but how you lived without those things.
There are no greater chains than that of things
What you collect, consume and hoard weighs you down. It keeps you shackled to your spot. It keeps you thinking that your happiness lies in inanimate objects rather than in the experiences; moments that could never fit on a shelf.
It’s these insignificant things that keep you imprisoned. It’s this desire to have more that keeps you from getting everything.
Because the greatest thing you can strive for is contentment. Living your life knowing you don’t need anything besides what you have and what’s in front of you is the ultimate “thing". It’s those insignificant things that eat away at your money and your freedom.
Having things means leaving them. It means adding unnecessary weight to your load, making getting up and leaving that much harder. Suddenly, you’re thinking about all you’re leaving behind rather than looking at everything that could be in front of you.
Your eulogy won’t include how much money you saved
People may remember that you were rich, but they won’t love you for it. They won’t smile when they think about all the money you had in the bank. They won’t cry over your forgotten belongings or empty estates. They will cry for who you were and what you did.
They will recall the kind of person you were, everything you experienced, everything you saw. They will talk about the things you loved and the people you touched. They will recall all the places you visited that changed you, those funny stories you told them and the experiences you shared together.
Being rich happens in years, but being a well-rounded person takes a lifetime.
Experiences never get lost or ruined
Anything that has a price-tag -- that can be bought and sold -- isn't something that’s going to stay with you. Things break, they get ruined, they are lost. Placing any amount of happiness in inanimate objects is setting yourself up for the chance to lose those things, and in return, to lose happiness.
The only things that will stay with you are feelings, memories and good times. No amount of money or objects will shelter you.
You can pay for fancy homes and fancy cars, but they'll never keep you safe or help you weather the emotional storms of life. Because things are just things; they never last.
Which the happiness attached to them about as temporary as a momentary high. The more you collect, however, the higher your tolerance becomes, and like an addict, eventually you will have bought everything and feel nothing.
Happiness is a state of being. It’s never going to be something that you can trade, barter or consume. It's a conscious realization that no amount of things will make you happy. It's learning that the absence of them is where happiness lies.
Hide and Seek. This reminds me of my own blissful childhood. In the spirit of Barbara Striesand, I liked the way things were...forget Ipads and Iphones and the Internet, and Sat Navs, and 3D HD whatever D, and DVDs and Blackberrys. Give me a cord wire phone and a conversation with Grandmother any time, a map to help me travel to see my best friend, and the solitude of knowing nothing is expected of me if I don't log on, or disaster won't strike if I let loose for just one evening and forget to check my mobile phone. Sometimes technology invades me...and I just have to let go - even if the angry bleep or red flash is angrily persistent albeit helpful in times of crisis. Not everything is a crisis and I have to remember - it is good to let go.
There is a sweetness in embracing totality. A peace that arrives seeing all truths.
Letting go, I breathe open to know, something connected, fresh and new.
Vieve Kennedy
Photographed at Little Hump Mountain
My grandmother sent me an email today with the following saying:
"A man is wealthy in proportion to the number of things he can let go of."
I had a couple rough moments today, but after stepping back and letting go, I feel like I can move forward now.
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External hard drives don't bounce. I wouldn't recommend letting one get snagged by the cords as one moves from a chair and watching it be yanked from a table top to even a carpeted surface before a mid-air snatch can be done to anyone. It was a full 1 TB. I was in the process of moving files from it to another new one to create a different organizational arrangement of files. I had not gotten far. My computer does not recognize it's old friend anymore. This happened late in the evening last night so that I had time to call only a few data recovery services and go to bed with sticker shock for recovery costs dancing through my dreams all evening. I did not wake rested.
It has been an interesting exercise of letting go...of knowing the potential of a few years worth of work and a lot of personal household data 'filed' for 'safety' might be as these bubbles ... floating gently by before bursting at the slightest touch.
I am confident that it all can be safely and securely recovered...for a sizeable fee. Yet it is this encounter with Reality writ large that for me leaves me feeling quite reflective about what is important and what I can let go of in this moment in time.
This image was taken during that time when I was trying to capture bubbles for a Macro Monday theme a few weeks ago. I added a black and white filter to the image and brought the color of the bubbles back in using a layer mask. I figured I would find the 'right' moment to upload this one.
Now seems as good as any...
In this experiment the only variance is the play of light on a golden ribbon partially see through. As the light changes so does the appearance of transparency, color, texture and clarity. We are deceived over and over when we rely only on what we can see because a change of light will alter the perception completely.
~ Susan Fay West
The We're Here group is all about blue jeans and white shirts today. It was Joyce's pick, so I had to play. :)
207/366
“A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.”
~ J.R.R. Tolkien ~
"I prefer to explore the most intimate moments,
the smaller, crystallized details upon which we all hinge our lives.” ~ Rita Dove ~
"As we look back over our lives we see things in almost a dream state, and our memories will zoom in on certain events that were pivotal points in our journey....doors that opened or closed...new directions taken." ~ Larry G. Kirkpatrick ~
I wish I could put into words what this one means to me. My hope is that it means something to one or two of you.
"At some point, as Richard keeps telling me, you gotta let go and sit still and allow contentment to come to you.
Letting go, of course, is a scary enterprise for those of us who believe that the world revolves only because it has a handle on the top of it which we personally turn, and that if we were to drop this handle for even a moment, well – that would be the end of the universe. But try dropping it….Sit quietly for now and cease your relentless participation. Watch what happens. The birds do not crash dead out of the sky in mid-flight, after all. The trees do not wither and die, the rivers do not run red with blood. Life continues to go on…. Why are you so sure that your micromanagement of every moment in this whole world is so essential? Why don’t you let it be?"
— Elizabeth Gilbert
May 12, 2017
A dandelion. An elderly unrecognizable version of itself, momentarily shimmers in dazzling silver perfection. Tomorrow it will slowly let go.
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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here it is, a picture from sunday's photoshoot as i promised. i'm sorry it took so long to finally upload! beleive me, theres plenty more where this came from.
i'm off to frost my brownie-cake i'm bringing in to school tomorow for mathclass :D
(i'm sitting on the diving-board of my pool)
I recently let go of a relationship that I wanted to last for the long haul. I tried in every way I knew how to hold on to what was obviously not mean to be. Right now I am going through the five stages of grief (I'm at the first stage) and I know that this is the beginning of putting out the old and welcoming something new. For about a year after our breakup, I have remained open to this relationship (that lasted five years) that was not good for me and I know now it's time to finally move on...
I Could Take On the World BUT I Don't Think She Intended Me to Do It In My Underwear!
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This image reminds me that all of life is an appearance and a disappearance of form. Certain wavelengths of color soak up aspects of what appears to be dissolving. This is the exquisite mystery that everything is offered to. There is wholeness which ever guides the perfection of life though so often i see only bits and pieces of what I know to be true.
Let it go, let the current carry it away, let it heal...
Our untold stories, Part 12, scene five: Letting go, moving on
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I didn't like this one as much as some others, but with the pages closest to her in focus, and the ones furthest away out of focus it just represented the concept best.
in lightbox but best here
Model; Renee and myself
There was a time when I could breath my life into you
One by one your pale fingers started to move
I touched your face and all death was erased
You smiled like an angel fallen from grace
Just to be lifted again
And you kissed my lips
With those once warm fingertips
You brought me back to life
But things have come to an end
We don't have to pretend
Slowly we fall asleep
Never to wake up again
In the grace of our love
We writhe in pain
And the end is not far away
Soon we'll fall sleep
And never wake up again
shhh...
The four of us stood there looking at our friend.
'We should say something' I said 'maybe a few words.'
'All drains lead to the sea!' my daughter shouted.
Then she flushed the toilet.
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"My mystery consists of my being simply a means, and not an end, and this has given me the most dangerous of freedoms."
We must learn from things: we have everything to learn from them. How to let things make themselves known by themselves, before any translation, a way of being an open window, of being a hand full of soul, of being in front of each of the innumerable lives, of coming ahead softly wide-open to meet each thing....
~ Helene Cixous (on Clarice Lispector)
A Photo Where I Recognize Myself…
March 8, 2023: This week, I’ve been #reading about #love and the concept of #LettingGo. If you follow my highlights here, you’ve likely seen my sharing of posts that examine #selflove and #selfcare.
Embedded in the concept of unconditional love is the idea of letting go, or of letting things be. Kain Ramsay, in his @udemy course, #Mindfulness Practitioner Diploma, describes how: “Letting go is a way of simply accepting things as they are. Let your experience be what it is and practice observing it from #moment to moment. Sometimes things end, and sometimes people end.”
It’s one of the nine attitudinal foundations of mindfulness, as described by Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn. Specifically, Kabat-Zinn notes how this process can be painful, “… but the letting go is actually the doorway to freedom, and it’s something you don’t do once - it’s something you practice over and over and over again, moment by moment by moment. Every time you catch yourself clinging to something you remind yourself that it’s possible to just let it be, and to just let it go. The breath can remind us of that because every time we take a breath in, we have to let it go.”
@leeoralexandra notes how, “…whenever a challenge comes up, just let go, and you’ll open more. And that’s my path, it’s the path of the ocean, of love, of seeing God in everybody. And one of the things stops us from seeing God in everybody is attachment. Attachments come from the ego. Do you feel you can only be happy if you have this person in your life? Or this thing? Or this experience? Or this event? Or maybe it’s an attachment to who you want to be or who you see yourself as, to who you think you are.“ Alexandra also notes how “Our attachments are nightmares. When we’re attached, we are at the whim of our attachments and that’s such a heavy way to live…“
It’s something I’ve thought a lot about in recent weeks, especially as I find myself at a kind of a crossroads in my life - one where I can continue on the path where anxiety and depression continue to weigh down my life and muddy up my reflections and decisions. @aarondoughty44 explains, “…the key to this is realizing that it’s the #power of coming back to self, and not #abandoning yourself any longer. The most #magnetic thing you can do is to pull back your #energy, to be and feel safe in your own body… that allows you to heal (and in situations where another is involved), and it allows them (to heal), go through and get the space they’re asking for.”
It’s something that terrifies me. In a @coursera program on mindfulness I’ve been working through, it asked us to rate the level of difficulty we found an attitudinal foundation to be in terms of implementing it in our life. In terms of actualized practice, I rated it a 9/10, or very difficult. But ultimately, it’s a concept I know I need to do some serious work on.
67/365.
#beyourownbeloved #recognizingourselves
With the countdown to 26, I give you this picture and personal lesson today:
When you have wronged, apologize, and then let it go.
Apologize for the sake of wanting to clear the tension of the situation, and not just your consciousness. Be sincere. And then let it go. You did the right thing. What the other person makes of your apology is their choice. Now their chance to forgive comes. But it cannot be your burden to carry after you've admitted your wrong and asked for forgiveness. Your state of mind and life should be free of the guilt someone might still insist on inducing unto you later on.
As this year of 2008 comes to an end.....I find myself reflecting and remembering all that has happened over the past year. It is sort of bittersweet.....since so many dramatic and heartbreaking things have happened to me. But I have had many blessings as well. As I take stock of 2008.....I wanted to recap 2008 with you, my Flickr friends. ;o)
*A long and unhealthy vicious cycle (relationship) with someone who had not only my heart but that of my son's...ENDED. I gave my all...and I can feel some comfort in knowing that I did all I could.....right or wrong....to find a way for it to work. I realize now that my son and I are better off without this person...but it doesn't take the sting away. My son will soon have my last name, the way it should have been from the start. That will be the last loose end to tie off and I look forward to being able to move on full knowing that we deserve better.....
*My mother was diagnosed with stage 4 Cervical Cancer in April. She endured 4 months of chemo and radiation and has now been in remission for almost 6 months. I have a new appreciation for her strength and for her will.....but not only her but those I had met during her treatments at the hospital she received her treatments at. Even though they were brief meetings....they none-the-less changed my life.
*I was diagnosed with an Anxiety/Panic disorder. After enduring the stress of my past relationship and the diagnosing of Cancer with my mom seemed to push me into the realm of having a mental health disorder. I know some may find mental health issues taboo and even embarrassing..but I have nothing to be embarrassed about. We all reach a point in our life when things just become too much. I am proud of myself for getting help...and I have been attending therapy sessions for almost 4 months. I did try meds but they aren't for me....and God has truly brought me to a place where I have been able to get to know the real me. To find out who I am, and what I am really about. Though I still struggle with my anxiety issues....I am truly on my way to recovery and I am taking so much away from it all. I am finally starting to be the real me...more & more each day.
*I had struggles with my faith. I never thought that I couldn't trust my Father God..but I DIDN'T WANT to trust him. I wanted to be right...I wanted to have the final say in who was in my life and what I should bring into my life......but all that did was make my life miserable. Without getting into a lengthy and wordy explanation.....I am able to say that I realize so much more now that God had a life planned for me that is beyond my comprehension...and I will work towards relinquishing control of my life. Everyday is a struggle with letting go.....which is really what the above photo is about.
Letting go of the illusion of control over my life.....my selfish goals, my selfish ideals.....of my past, of things that hold me back, of regrets and self-fulfilling prophesy, of negativity.....of all things that can only hinder my life.
I pray that the New Year brings you joy, contentment in any situation.....that God blesses you abundantly this coming year. ;o)
xoxoxoxo
Texture from Ishkamina
Sometimes it's difficult to let go of something we treasure, a family member, a friend, an old love, an old way of being... letting go freely and without attachment just brings it all back - in due time - freely... transformed into pure beauty and grace.
Created for the Textures Only competition #42 - Egret.
My deep thanks to Mike Baird for his generosity in sharing his amazing picture of Great Egret.
And thanks to Marlon Hammes for the perfect background.
Thanks also to SkeletalMess - Bruised Ego for the beautiful texture. It was ALL I needed.
Our dreams have tamed the lions, have made pathways in the jungle, peaceful lakes; they have built new Edens ever sweet and ever changing. By day from town to town we carry Eden in our tents and bring its wonders to the children who have lost their dream of home.
-Circus Days and Nights by Robert Lax
The greatest danger, a tightrope walker had once told him, was “to get happy up there.”
-Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax (Catholic Practice in North America (FUP)) by Michael N. McGregor
This is a cute ang pow especially for the young with a clever design. The ears serving as flaps for tucking in and securing the ang pow to prevent money from dropping out. We wouldn't want that.
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. - Joseph Campbell
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