Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.
There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.
It is fashionable in some quarters to say our ancestors were all evil. I reject that notion. I also reject the elitist worldview that these United States are anything but the greatest nation in the history of mankind.
Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.
Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows his death is stalking him and won't give him time to cling to anything so he tries, without craving, all of everything.
To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to.
My daily affairs are quite ordinary; but I'm in total harmony with them. I don't hold on to anything, don't reject anything; nowhere an obstacle or conflict. Who cares about wealth and honor? Even the poorest thing shines. My miraculous power and spiritual activity: drawing water and carrying wood.
reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
Don't cling to anything. Clinging is the cause of our being unconscious.
When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.
The really important thing is not to reject anything.
The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
A being whose awareness is totally free, who does not cling to anything, is liberated.