Let go, and respond to the immediate needs around you. Don’t get caught in some false perception of yourself. There will always be another person more gifted than you. And don’t perceive your position as important, but be ready to serve at any moment. If you can let go of who you think you are, you will become free — ready to love others. If you learn to see your impermanence, you will be able to live for the moment and not miss opportunities to love by pushing things into the future.
–Thich Nhat Hanh
Periodic breaks are needed from blogging and the whole web world. I’ve got a lot of tasks to attend to, and the weather is begging me to be outdoors more. And sometimes I get tired of what’s going on in my own head — thinking… feh! That’s a certain way to get caught up on false sense of self. So it’s time to return to the present, and to the embodied, for a little while. I’ll be back from Austin on the 28th — rested and refreshed!
and don’t forget . . . another year older, too! Have a great trip, Kathryn! {{{hugs}}}
So true.
I met a very elderly monk when I was about 17 years old. He told me something very similar. It is something I have always tried to hang onto. I find it helps to let go when you are in a spin of you own reality and realise that it is often easy to solve issues for yourself when you are no holding on to “you” so tightly
On the occasions when I do let go, it always feels better.