THE ART OF LETTING GO

Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness. - Jalaluddin Rumi

Refuse to lose...the battle cry of the loser; strive to win...the battle cry of the ego. Both fear of losing and obsession with winning are one and the same...just another hidey-hole for separateness.

“Live to fight another day” can be upgraded to “live to give another day.”

Live to fight is a self-determined objective with our goal being self, all things self...protection, will, image. Live to give is of God with others as its goal. It is important to know and to note: It must be all others. Except just one anything, that exception becomes our god, and we've fallen back into the fight mode.

All of this came to me this morning when I read a note I had written in God Calling: "1986 - my actions are good; my thoughts and fantasies are not - to turn my anger/attack nature over to God." 

There's the proof that God can and will if sought...because I do what I'm writing about the majority of the time today. Sometimes that's only 51 percent, but that is a majority. Unfortunately, when I'm in the 49 percent, I am 100 percent there. But that is more than I could ever have done on my own...and it keeps me aware of the fact that I am a rank beginner still in the art of letting go.

Thank you.