Post by lildee on Jan 17, 2005 2:53:04 GMT -5
Hope for Today
I meditate frequently on the meaning of letting go. Now and then I think I comprehend it until yet another situation challenges me to broaden my understanding. Again I ask myself, "What does it mean to let go?"
Recently I reflected on a beautiful bouquet of flowers. While inhaling the exquisite fragrance of the open blossoms, I found myself wishing the closed buds might open, too. Then I recalled occasionally seeing flowers whose buds never opened or unfolded.
Sometimes I have trouble opening up and unfolding-letting go-into my true magnificence. I often restrain myself for fear that others will misunderstand and criticize me. Applying this idea in the context of flowers, holding back might mean I'm trying to hide my yellow, thick, round bloom behind the facade of one that appears red, slender, and elongated. When I look at it this way, holding back seems a sad misuse of energy.
In any spray of flowers, all appeal to me-each one as an individual bloom, and all of them together as a beautiful symphony of color and fragrance. They remind me to relinquish false reserve and to allow my own particular bloom to develop to its brightest and most fragrant so that I can joyfully claim my rightful place in the bouquet of people around me.
Thought for the Day
Am I hiding or holding back some part of myself? What beauty can I release or embrace today?
"By learning how to lovingly 'let go' ...I have been given a wonderful gift: a life of my own."
Homeward Bound, p. 4
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I meditate frequently on the meaning of letting go. Now and then I think I comprehend it until yet another situation challenges me to broaden my understanding. Again I ask myself, "What does it mean to let go?"
Recently I reflected on a beautiful bouquet of flowers. While inhaling the exquisite fragrance of the open blossoms, I found myself wishing the closed buds might open, too. Then I recalled occasionally seeing flowers whose buds never opened or unfolded.
Sometimes I have trouble opening up and unfolding-letting go-into my true magnificence. I often restrain myself for fear that others will misunderstand and criticize me. Applying this idea in the context of flowers, holding back might mean I'm trying to hide my yellow, thick, round bloom behind the facade of one that appears red, slender, and elongated. When I look at it this way, holding back seems a sad misuse of energy.
In any spray of flowers, all appeal to me-each one as an individual bloom, and all of them together as a beautiful symphony of color and fragrance. They remind me to relinquish false reserve and to allow my own particular bloom to develop to its brightest and most fragrant so that I can joyfully claim my rightful place in the bouquet of people around me.
Thought for the Day
Am I hiding or holding back some part of myself? What beauty can I release or embrace today?
"By learning how to lovingly 'let go' ...I have been given a wonderful gift: a life of my own."
Homeward Bound, p. 4
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. I will be back looking for Lin and others.