Radical letting go

For all of us, there has to be this radical letting go, whether it’s enforced by being picked up and thrown into prison for five years and having your life suddenly interrupted dramatically, or in some other way – maybe it’s an illness, maybe it’s a new view of life, maybe it’s just the phases of one’s life unfolding. In some way, we have to learn to let go if we are to be able to live freely. And we have the great gift in meditation of being able to let go, at the very centre, of our acquisitiveness and our competitiveness. That’s where we need to let go. One way or another, it is what we have to learn. And in learning it, we learn to see everything differently; what seemed like a prison becomes a school, what seems like alienation becomes relationship.

( Aspects of Love 1, by Laurence Freeman )