Dropping all we carry
– all our preconceptions, our interior lists of the ways we’ve failed
and the ways we’ve been wronged, all the secret burdens we work at maintaining – dropping all regret and expectations lets our mentality die.
Dropping all we have constructed as imperative allows us
to be born again into the simplicity of spirit that arises from unencumbered being.
It is often overwhelming to imagine changing our entire way of life.
Where do we begin?
How do we take down a wall that took twenty-five or fifty years to erect?
Breath by breath.
Little death by little death.
Dropping all we carry instant by instant.
Trusting that what has done the carrying, if freed, will carry us.
– all our preconceptions, our interior lists of the ways we’ve failed
and the ways we’ve been wronged, all the secret burdens we work at maintaining – dropping all regret and expectations lets our mentality die.
Dropping all we have constructed as imperative allows us
to be born again into the simplicity of spirit that arises from unencumbered being.
It is often overwhelming to imagine changing our entire way of life.
Where do we begin?
How do we take down a wall that took twenty-five or fifty years to erect?
Breath by breath.
Little death by little death.
Dropping all we carry instant by instant.
Trusting that what has done the carrying, if freed, will carry us.
~ Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Conari Press; October 1, 2011)
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