Letting Go & Surrender

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

“The spirit must remain free in any case, because in the final analysis only the spirit is concerned!”

“"These sons belong to me, and this wealth belongs to me," with such thoughts a fool is tormented. He himself does not belong to himself; how much less sons and wealth?”

“Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

“It is better to leave a vessel unfilled, than to attempt to carry it when it is full.”

“Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.”

“Free yourself, and also joyfully help others to do likewise!”

“Thou shouldst not become presumptuous through much treasure and wealth; for in the end it is necessary for thee to leave all.”

“For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can't carry anything out.”

“From pleasure comes grief, from pleasure comes fear; he who is free from pleasure knows neither grief nor fear.”

“Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

“Never let yourselves be subjugated through enjoying, but take only what is necessary in life on earth for the maintenance and development of the good things entrusted to you.”

“Cast your burden on the LORD and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.”

“When the work is done, and one's name is becoming distinguished, to withdraw into obscurity is the way of Heaven.”

“Genuine freedom for each human spirit lies solely in humility!”

“For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.”

“From greed comes grief, from greed comes fear; he who is free from greed knows neither grief nor fear.”

“Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, LORD, God of truth.”

“True knowledge simultaneously brings humility into being as a matter of course!”

“Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.”

“Let, therefore, no man love anything; loss of the beloved is evil. Those who love nothing and hate nothing, have no fetters.”

“It is because he is thus free from striving that therefore no one in the world is able to strive with him.”

“The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the LORD's name.”

“Yea, the world itself will pass away, and nothing will remain but God!”

“Give yourselves to the Lord in your prayer, give yourselves entirely to Him and without reserve!”

“"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways," says the LORD.”

“My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.”

“From affection comes grief, from affection comes fear; he who is free from affection knows neither grief nor fear.”

“Man may and should gladly enjoy what God provides for him through His Creation!”

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.”

“Or fame or life, Which do you hold more dear? Or life or wealth, To which would you adhere?”

“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?”

“Only he who knows the Will of God and lives accordingly is really free!”

“That fetter wise people call strong which drags down, yields, but is difficult to undo; after having cut this at last, people leave the world, free from cares, and leaving desires and pleasures behind.”

“So therefore, whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be my disciple.”

“Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.”

“Whenever man says: “Thy Will be done!” it is tantamount to affirming: “I will honour and obey Thy Laws in Creation!””

“The will of the Lord is the law of holiness.”

“Don't love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.”

“When gold and jade fill the hall, their possessor cannot keep them safe.”

“Give up what is before, give up what is behind, give up what is in the middle, when thou goest to the other shore of existence; if thy mind is altogether free, thou wilt not again enter into birth and decay.”

“Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.”

“When it is said that a man should not cling to earthly possessions as soon as he strives towards the Kingdom of Heaven, this does not mean that he should give or throw them away and live in poverty.”

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.”

“God’s Laws in Creation are in truth simply all that every man needs for a healthy, happy life in Creation. They are, as it were, nourishment for his well-being!”

“For when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won't descend after him.”

“Him I call indeed a Brahmana who does not cling to pleasures, like water on a lotus leaf, like a mustard seed on the point of a needle.”

“The work is accomplished, and there is no resting in it (as an achievement).”

“Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint. Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.”

““Thy Will be done” actually means: “I will act according to It” or “I desire Thy Will!””

“Don't boast about tomorrow; for you don't know what a day may bring.”

“Him I call indeed a Brahmana who calls nothing his own, whether it be before, behind, or between, who is poor, and free from the love of the world.”

“Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ.”

“Thou shouldst not become presumptuous through any happiness of the world; for the happiness of the world is such-like as a cloud that comes on a rainy day, which one does not ward off by any hill.”

“To become free within, however, can only be achieved by each individual alone. Yet for this he must know what freedom means, what it is.”

“Charge those who are rich in this present age that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.”

“It produces them and makes no claim to the possession of them.”

“For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.”

“Look upon the world as a bubble, look upon it as a mirage: the king of death does not see him who thus looks down upon the world.”

“It is one of the most exalted Commandments, because it remains the one most necessary to man! Unfortunately, he is all too apt to yield to some propensity which finally enslaves him! But whatever he allows to become a propensity he therewith makes into a golden calf, which he sets in the highest place, and thereby also as a false deity or idol beside his God, very often even above Him!”

“And those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.”