Daily Reflection

Please remember that you never have to let go of anything until you don't feel you need it anymore. You broke your leg and needed a crutch. There was excruciating pain with any effort to put full weight on the leg. The crutches became habit. The cast is off. In the first steps with the cast off there was pain, so you are still using the crutches. You do not have to let go of the crutches until you are ready. But you must also recognize that as long as you hold onto the crutches, you can't run freely through the meadows and chase butterflies. It is you who limit your joy. More specifically, your fear and your unwillingness to give up that fear limits your joy. This doesn't mean that you go on a campaign to get rid of fear, only that you develop the courage and willingness to trust that you will know when it's time to let go of a crutch and will do so. It's not skillful to let go of the crutch while the leg is still broken. Trust your deepest wisdom to know when you no longer need your jealousy or greed or sense of unworthiness, to know when you have grown beyond those and they're simply old habit. It is the hardest thing you will ever be asked to do as humans, to let go of the accumulated debris of so many lifetimes and come into the fullness of your true self. It truly is your final thesis and it's hard work. Honor yourself that you are willing even to consider this work. And remember that once you have done it, there is tremendous joy in running barefoot through the meadow. No crutches.

Aaron