“The process of letting go of your more destructive emotions and darker impulses does not require tight control of the subject matter of your thoughts, although most people think it does. In fact, it doesn’t require control of your thoughts or feelings in any way. You are not at war with circumstances, your behavior, other people’s behavior, your feelings, other people’s feelings, your thoughts, or other people’s thoughts. You simply are not at war. It is just the reverse. Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.”
— Hugh Prather, The Little Book of Letting Go, p. 10