Source: Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love
“The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to
release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the
clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our
spirit.”
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Jack Kornfield 19
American writer 1945Related quotes

Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
Context: What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophecy or as poesy. … and should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth.
Let us be wise, and not impede the soul. Let her work as she will. Let us have one creative energy, one incessant revelation. Let it take what form it will, and let us not bind it by the past to man or woman, black or white.

“Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.”
Source: (1940), II

“Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.”
Source: Deception Point

Sir Edmund Hillary : King Of The World
Context: The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.

“Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.”
Source: Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind