--- title: "1 Letting Feel Quotes By Katrina Kenison" description: "1 Letting Feel quotes by Katrina Kenison. Plus more from Katrina Kenison and more Letting Feel sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76a/katrina-kenison-18036_death_if-you-want-to-be-reborn-it-is-written-i_2720809.jpg" --- > [“If you want to be reborn,' it is written in the Tao Te Ching, 'let yourself die.' This is what I've been having trouble with, the fact that letting go can feel, at times, like a death. Someday, I know,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/if-you-want-to-be-reborn-it-is-written-in-the-tao-te-ching-let/) [Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76a/katrina-kenison-18036_death_if-you-want-to-be-reborn-it-is-written-i_2720809.jpg) ## More by Katrina Kenison > [I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/i-take-the-seashell-from-my-jeans-pocket-and-rub-my-fingers-across/) [Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/) > [“I don't wish for the red house back, not really, yet in a way, I wish for everything back that ever was, everything that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/i-don-t-wish-for-the-red-house-back-not-really-yet-in-a-way-i-wish/) [Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/) > [“If some essential part of me was already disappearing as my children moved into increasingly wider orbits, well then, I wanted to rech out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/if-some-essential-part-of-me-was-already-disappearing-as-my-children/) [Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/) > [we can learn to trust our maternal selves and to have faith in the innate goodness and purity of our children - even when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/we-can-learn-to-trust-our-maternal-selves-and-to-have-faith-in-the/) [Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/) > [Now I see that the journey was never meant to lead to some new and improved version of me; that it has always been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/now-i-see-that-the-journey-was-never-meant-to-lead-to-some-new-and/) [Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/) > [“This, I suspect, is the territory that lies just ahead and around the curve of today. A place where loss grows more familiar, where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/this-i-suspect-is-the-territory-that-lies-just-ahead-and-around-the/) [Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/) > [Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/alone-in-moments-of-prayer-or-meditation-or-simply-in-stillness-we/) [Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/) > [I know I can't make time slow down, can't hold our life as it is in a freeze frame or slow my children's inexorable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/i-know-i-can-t-make-time-slow-down-can-t-hold-our-life-as-it-is-in-a/) [Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/) > [As I loosen my grip on the past, as I keep taking one small step after another in the direction I want to go,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/as-i-loosen-my-grip-on-the-past-as-i-keep-taking-one-small-step-after/) [Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/) > [We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/we-are-the-windows-through-which-our-children-first-see-the-world-let/) [Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/) > [It has taken awhile, but I certainly do know it now – the most wonderful gift I had, the gift I finally learned to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/it-has-taken-awhile-but-i-certainly-do-know-it-now-the-most-wonderful/) [Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/) > [Magic wasn't something I had to go in search of; it was here, within me, all the time. When hearts are open, when love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/magic-wasn-t-something-i-had-to-go-in-search-of-it-was-here-within-me/) [Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/) > [“Stay focused on what is beautiful and abundant even as illness carves more and more of what you love away”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/stay-focused-on-what-is-beautiful-and-abundant-even-as-illness-carves/) [Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/) > [I can only bring peace to my children when I possess it myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/i-can-only-bring-peace-to-my-children-when-i-possess-it-myself/) [Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/) > [“When we focus on what is good and beautiful in someone, whether or not we think that they "deserve" it, the good and beautiful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/when-we-focus-on-what-is-good-and-beautiful-in-someone-whether-or-not/) [Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/letting-feel/katrina-kenison/#itemlist", "name": "1 Letting Feel Quotes By Katrina Kenison", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“If you want to be reborn,' it is written in the Tao Te Ching, 'let yourself die.' 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