“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
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Eckhart Tolle 251
German writer 1948Related quotes

Education (1902)
Context: I am not of those who believe in lackadaisical methods. On the contrary, I advocate a vigorous, thorough, exact mental training which shall fit the mind to expand upon and grasp large things and yet properly to perceive in their just relation the significance of small ones to discriminate accurately as to quantity and quality and thus to develop individual judgment, capacity and independence.
But at the same time I am of those who believe that gentleness is a greater, surer power than force, and that sympathy is a safer power by far than is intellect. Therefore would I train the individual sympathies as carefully in all their delicate warmth and tenuity as I would develop the mind in alertness, poise and security.
Nor am I of those who despise dreamers. For the world would be at the level of zero were it not for its dreamers gone and of today. He who dreamed of democracy, far back in a world of absolutism, was indeed heroic, and we of today awaken to the wonder of his dream.

“Four things greater than all things are,—
Women and Horses and Power and War.”
The Ballad of the King's Jest, Stanza 4
Other works

“The only thing greater than the power of the mind is the courage of the heart”

“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
Source: The Da Vinci Code

No. 50
On the Interpretation of Nature (1753)
“Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hang on too long.”