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Letting Go

Wednesday Sep 12 2007

Letting go is a big part of growing older. If letting go as we age means experiencing terrible losses to us, then we’ll feel as if whatever we are attached to is being snatched away as the years pass by. The key to serenity is to let go voluntarily.

There’s a difference between letting go as a choice and succumbing to the inevitable. For example, since we can’t do anything about global warming, we become resigned and decide we might as well let it go—by which we really mean we ‘give up’. Letting go isn’t the same as giving up. Letting go is choosing to accept life on life’s terms, to freely release attachments and enthusiastically embrace whatever comes next.
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Written by Jim Selman at Wisdom in Action
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