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By all means, have intentions and plans for the future and take actions towards them…

• Learn to harness the power of intention, and you can create anything you desire. Deepak Chopra
• Everything that happens in the universe starts with intention. Intention is the very basis of creation. Deepak Chopra
• Our intention creates our reality. Wayne Dyer
• I tell you this: Your Life proceeds out of your intentions for it. Neale Donald Walsch
• You create your thoughts, your thoughts create your intentions, and your intentions create your reality. Wayne Dyer
• The future,  Non-attachment,  Intention,  Expectation,  Letting go,  Go with the flow

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… but let go of your attachment to the result …

•  Learn the magic of nonattachment. Nonattachment means: “I’ll do everything possible, I’ll put the odds in my favor, I’ll work hard and concentrate. I’ll do my best to succeed. But, if I don’t, that’s okay, too.” Richard Carlson
• The Law of Detachment says that in order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. This doesn’t mean that you give up the intention to create your desire. You don’t give up the intention, and you don’t give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result. Deepak Chopra
• To rid yourself of excuses, you must learn to practice contemplating what you intend to manifest and simultaneously detach from the outcome. Wayne Dyer
• When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior’s way. Dan Millman
• I embrace desires but I am not bound by them, I’m not attached to them. I can have a desire, and drop the desire if it’s not fulfilled… I don’t get stuck anywhere. Zen Master Genpo Roshi
• Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions. Joan Borysenko
• Always perform your duty efficiently and without attachment to the results, because by doing work without attachment one attains the Supreme. Bhagavad Gita
• Expectation is the root of all heartache. William Shakespeare
• I relax my consciousness. I unset my heart. I wear the world as a loose garment. I learn to dance with grace on the constantly shifting carpet. I go with the flow. Susan Jeffers
• Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Alexander Pope
• Act without expectation. Lao Tzu
• Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect. Margaret Mitchell
• Letting go,  Non-attachment

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… especially any craving or sense of “gotta have it”

• Desire and intent are different. Desire has attachment. Intent does not. It’s imperative that we harness the power of our pure intention— independent of the outcomes of our actions. Deepak Chopra
• Intentions are a form of desire. Desire per se is not the root of suffering; craving is. The key is to have wholesome intentions without being attached to their results. Rick Hanson
• Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen. Yet do not confuse desire with expectation, or with need. Desire has an entirely different quality to it. You can desire something without needing or requiring it. That little difference makes everything work. That little difference is the whole trick. Desire, do not Require. To desire propels. To require compels. Life will not be compelled, but it can be coaxed. Neale Donald Walsch
• Relax any sense of “gotta have it.” Feel into the ways your life is and will be basically all right even if you don’t attain a particular goal. Seek results from a place of fullness, not scarcity or lack. Rick Hanson
• Cravings,  Desire

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Know you’ll be okay with whatever outcome manifests …

• You go from reacting to observing. There is an emotional disconnection that must take place; non- attachment. This doesn’t mean not feeling anything, but being okay with whatever outcome manifests. Swami Premodaya
• The difference between me and you is that I don’t mind what happens. Jiddu Krishnamurti

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… knowing your happiness does not depend on getting what you want

• The secret of happiness is simply this… your happiness does not depend on getting what you want. Michael Neill
• I like to believe that you don’t need to reach a certain goal to be happy. I prefer to think that happiness is always there, and that when things don’t go the way we might like them to, it’s a sign from above that something even better is right around the corner. David Archuleta
• My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. Michael J. Fox
• Happiness is living without expectations. Peter Cajander
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Letting go of attachment to results is one of life’s great paradoxes

• The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. Niels Bohr
• An example of a paradox: Have intentions for the future but be free from any attachment to a particular future. This includes being free and unattached to producing results. It is a Purposeful Paradox to remain committed to certain results and outcomes, while at the same time remaining unattached. Brad Swift
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The paradox is that if you let go of your attachment to results, you’re actually more likely to get what you desire…

• The moment you relinquish your attachment to the result, combining one-pointed intention with detachment at the same time, you will have that which you desire. Deepak Chopra
• Become detached from the outcome of your actions and paradoxically your level of performance will climb. Wayne Dyer
• You can have anything you want, providing you first let go of wanting it. Lester Levinson
• When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you. Jessica Lange

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… for it is fear of failure that most often gets in the way of performance

• People think that if they had no cravings, they’d be like deadwood. But in fact they’d lose their tension. Get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding, you will be yourself. Relaxed. You wouldn’t be driving with your brakes on. That’s what would happen. Anthony de Mello
• The common view of confidence is that it derives from knowing that you will not fail. But confidence stems from not caring whether you succeed or fail. Paul Richards
• Paradoxically, holding your goals lightly increases the chance of attaining them, while being attached—and thus fearing failure—gets in the way of peak performance. Rick Hanson
• Get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding, you will be yourself. Relaxed. You wouldn’t be driving with your brakes on. That’s what would happen. Anthony De Mello
• Attachment creates fear that gets in your way: What if I lose? What if the deal doesn’t go through? What if I’m rejected? Your belief that everything must work out exactly as you want it to with no glitches creates enormous pressure. Nonattachment, on the other hand, works like magic. It allows you to have fun in your efforts, to enjoy the process. It takes the pressure off. You win regardless of the outcome. Richard Carlson
• When I grip the wheel too tight, I find I lose control. Steve Rapson
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Detachment allows you to pay full attention to the action and process rather than the result…

• So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action—just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord. Eckhart Tolle
• Too many people dream of the results of success and ignore the process. Tom Morris
• Just let go of the need to care about whether it happens or not, then you are free from fear and can then concentrate on focusing. Stephen Richards
• When you give up needing something, you are more likely to get it. Anthony Lambert
• I know some people say ‘Keep your eyes on the prize,’ but I disagree. When your eyes are stuck on the prize, you’re going to keep stumbling and crashing into things. If you really want to get ahead, you’ve got to keep your eyes focused on the path. Russell Simmons
• Another simple and powerful way to dissolve problems is not to dwell upon the outcome of your actions. Instead, learn to value each action (no matter how small or large), to do it with complete attention. Your joy and satisfaction comes from doing each action with a whole heart and mind. Results and consequences then take care of themselves. When you are not absorbed by concern for outcomes, how much anxiety can you ever have?  Brenda Shoshanna
• How’ is always more important that ‘what.’ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it. Eckhart Tolle
• At times it’ll seem chaotic, but it’s not up to us to determine what the outcome will be. We can only do our best. Then it’s up to life to do the rest.  Henri Junttila
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… freeing you of stress, anxiety and fear

• There is nothing scary about life if you are not attached to results. Neale Donald Walsch
• If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession. Carlos Castaneda
• The awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results. Bhagavad Gita
• The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass. Epictetus
• Everything on earth gives cause for fear, and the only freedom from fear is to be found in the renunciation of all desire. Bharti-hari
• We can watch our motivations for action and soften into the need of any kind of outcome, yet totally committing ourselves without reservation to what we’re given to do.  Chris Bourne
• You no longer pursue your goals with grim determination, driven by fear, anger, discontent, or the need to become someone. Nor will you remain inactive through fear of failure, which to the ego is loss of self. When your deeper sense of self is derived from Being, when you are free of ‘becoming’ as a psychological need, neither your happiness nor your sense of self depends on the outcome, and there is freedom from fear. Eckhart Tolle
• If you achieve your goal, you’ll be fine. If you don’t achieve your goal, you’ll also be fine.  Srikumar S. Rao, Ph.D.
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Detachment from results opens you to new and often better possibilities that the universe may have in store for you

• Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. Alice Walker
• Release all expectations after you’ve set your goal. You never know what the universe might deliver to your doorstep. That’s why you want to have an open-mind, because what if the universe has something better in store for you? Henri Junttila
• Have intentions but don’t have expectations, and certainly don’t have requirements. Do not become addicted to a particular result. Do not even prefer one. Elevate your Addictions to Preferences, and your Preferences to Acceptances. Neale Donald Walsch
• I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the you expect. Lisa Kleypas
• I like to believe that you don’t need to reach a certain goal to be happy. I prefer to think that happiness is always there, and that when things don’t go the way we might like them to, it’s a sign from above that something even better is right around the corner. David Archuleta
• I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I have ended up where I needed to be. Douglas Adams
• If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.  André Maurois
• Just because things hadn’t gone the way I had planned didn’t necessarily mean they had gone wrong. Ann Patchett
• Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined. Deepak Chopra
• Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable. Mary Oliver
• Never be so focused on what you’re looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find. Ann Patchett
• Sometimes on the way to the dream you get lost and find a better one.
• We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell
• When things don’t seem to go my way, I let go of my attachment to how I think they should be, trusting that I am not seeing the big picture. If I knew the big picture, I would understand that there is a reason for things unfolding the way they are, and that the cosmos has a plan for me much grander than anything I have conceived. Deepak Chopra
• The Zen of it was, by not getting what we wanted, we got more than we ever imagined. Nile Rodgers
• A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect. Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Detachment from results creates freedom and inner peace

• When you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you’re free. To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up. Richard Carlson
• I let go of expectation. I visualise cutting the cord to my expectations. I imagine them drifting into the air until they are gone. Susan Jeffers
• But better still is surrender of attachment to results of one’s actions, because there follows immediate peace. Bhagavad Gita
• To be at peace in any endeavour, we must release our need to control the outcome. Diane Dreher
• Abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace. Krishna from The Bhagavad Gita
• When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• Once you become detached from things, they don’t own you any longer. Wayne Dyer
• If you achieve your goal, you’ll be fine. If you don’t achieve your goal, you’ll also be fine.  Srikumar S. Rao, Ph.D.
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Detachment allows you to find happiness and enjoyment in the present, not in some future event

• The real question is how do we live with divinely-inspired visions of the future AND feel great moment- to- moment- to- moment? Brian Johnson
• I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now. Peter McWilliams
• We want you to consider the millions and millions of moments of your real-life experience that could be feeling good now, feeling good now, feeling good now… Yes, of course, the manifestation will come. It certainly will come, good or bad. Wanted or unwanted, it is coming. But your life is now, your emotions are now, and the way you feel is now. Direct your thoughts to improve your now moment—and the manifestations will take care of themselves. Esther and Jerry Hicks
• Relinquish your attachment to the outcome. This means giving up your rigid attachment to a specific result and living in the wisdom of uncertainty. It means enjoying every moment in the journey of your life, even if you don’t know the outcome. Deepak Chopra
• Intention combined with detachment leads to life centred, present- moment awareness. My intent is for the future, but my attention is in the present. I accept the present and intend the future. I let go of my attachment to outcome. I enjoy every moment in the journey of life. Deepak Chopra
• Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today. Seneca
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Therefore, always keep your plans in life light and flexible

• Map out your future but do it in pencil. Jon Bon Jovi
• Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans. John Lennon
• In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but Providence writes on the other side and what it contains is seldom our goal. Nisami
• We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it. Lauryn Hill
• Write your goals in concrete and your plans in sand.
• We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. Joesph Campbell
• Get organised. Know where you are headed. But if something wonderful and unexpected comes along, be flexible enough to follow it.   Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Trust in the Divine order of the universe and believe that your life will unfold for the best, even if it’s not in the way you intend or expect

• As our awareness begins to shift, old patterns are beginning to break down and we lose our familiar points of reference. We need to let go and flow with events, not knowing the outcome but trusting in divine purpose. June McLeod
• But where we cannot understand we may trust. As I wandered in the wilderness of “ups and downs,” as I descended from Transfiguration Mounts to deep Valleys of Shadows, and then asceded again, and yet was never quite lost, I learned more and more how to trust; until in time I came to know that ‘all things work together for good’ to those who work with them. Elizabeth Towne
• Have faith that things will work out. You might not end up exactly where you intended to go, but eventually you will arrive precisely where you need to be.  Marc
• I let go and trust that all is happening perfectly. Susan Jeffers
• I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I have ended up where I needed to be. Douglas Adams
• If you just go with the flow, no matter what weird things happen along the way, you always end up exactly where you belong. Tom Upton
• Maybe the not knowing is how we move forward. Wherever I’m headed, I know it’s exactly where I’m supposed to be. Susane Colasanti
• We may not know where life will take us, but we can trust that wherever it may be, we will have the strength and stamina to stay afloat. Every turn of the tide offers us opportunities for learning, growth, and adventure, so go with the flow. Amanda Harvey
• When you let go of everything you think you know and just trust, life has a way of working itself out that’s better than you could ever imagine. Jackson Kiddard
• You may not be able to see what is ahead of you, but all you have to do is trust. There are miracles and magic waiting for you right now.  Joelene Setterfield
• A superior man always assumes complete responsibility, knowing that, ultimately, he has no control at all and everything is out of his hands. He acts with impeccable courage and persistence, expecting nothing but the inherent feeling of completeness he enjoys in the fullest giving of his life. David Deida
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• We are responsible for the effort, not the outcome.
• Always focus on your effort, instead of the results of that effort. Russell Simmons
• You cannot control the results, only your actions. Allan Lokos
• In any activity, we have to know what to expect, how to reach our objectives and what capacity we possess for the proposed task. The only people who can say they have renounced the fruit are those who, thus equipped, feel no desire for the results of the conquest, and remain absorbed in combat. You can renounce the fruit, but this renunciation does not mean indifference toward the result. Paulo Coelho
• Do not tether your happiness to the achievement of outcomes but to the joy of the process.

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