Letting Go (Enough)

 

“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.”
— Thomas Henry Huxley

 

How do I empty a cup too full
of life lived with questions?
How do I let go of disappointments
and belief in the lack of myself
when I have not been lacking
as much as my methods?
How do I give up
what I have known before
and surrender to each new moment
with openness and willingness to let go?
How do I let go of childhood falsehoods
daily stresses and concerns?
— G A Rosenberg

 

Thats the thing tho isn’t it? We can’t let go of something that is so shadowy as the things that clog our minds. It is only by giving them form and acknowledging what they are and how they didn’t work for us that we can even begin. The more we realize, the more we can encounter each new thing with openness. It doesn’t require letting go completely as much as the resolve to do so and not let our pasts (even the past of an hour ago) interfere with whatever we meet now.
Blessings, G

 

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Wise as Serpent, Gentle As DoveWise as Serpent, Gentle as Dove by G A Rosenberg

 

Energy Flowing Over and UnderEnergy Flowing Over and Under by G A Rosenberg

 

Representing Our Species

 

“You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.”
― Terence McKenna

 

When is the last time you explored your world? By that I mean when is the last time you woke up and looked at your every day existence as a stranger, someone who had never seen it before and questioned what you saw and experienced? Does it all make sense? What wonders did you see that you might have missed experiencing it in the same old way? What new insights did the stranger in your life reveal to you and what were you able to do with it? We live so much of our lives accepting that what we experience is normal and forgetting that there is no such thing. How good a representative of our species are we? Isn’t that a great question to ask ourselves perhaps each day?
Blessings, G

 

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Seeing Into A Dark WorldSeeing Into A Dark World by G A Rosenberg

 

Rough PassageRough Passage by G A Rosenberg

Representing Our Species

 

“You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.”
― Terence McKenna

 

When is the last time you explored your world? By that I mean when is the last time you woke up and looked at your every day existence as a stranger, someone who had never seen it before and questioned what you saw and experienced? Does it all make sense? What wonders did you see that you might have missed experiencing it in the same old way? What new insights did the stranger in your life reveal to you and what were you able to do with it? We live so much of our lives accepting that what we experience is normal and forgetting that there is no such thing. How good a representative of our species are we? Isn’t that a great question to ask ourselves perhaps each day?
Blessings, G

 

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Seeing Into A Dark WorldSeeing Into A Dark World by G A Rosenberg

 

Rough PassageRough Passage by G A Rosenberg