Welcome into your mind the following insights from Guy Finley's book, 365 Days to Let Go. Taken together they help illustrate and illuminate a grand design in which we first see the wholeness of life -- and then, as our awareness grows about this unfolding story, we enter into its native freedom. We are about to discover that more than being just a part of life's plan, letting go solves the mystery of it. We are about to see how the act of letting go completes the cycle of life itself. Now let's witness the truth of this beautiful idea in action.
See the ocean: it does not run after its own waves, as it knows they must return to rest in its depths. And so it is for us: whether we speak of joy, peace, strength, or love itself -- no greater illusion exists than that we should somehow find, searching outside of ourselves, the source of our True Self. (February 8)
When we learn how to be still, to listen to what life would teach us, we discover that not only is there a plan already in place -- a celestial curriculum designed to instruct us in the ways of its timeless peace and power -- but that the universe itself is a school for our higher education. (June 13)
Being at peace, and learning to live with quiet confidence -- even as the world spins wildly around us -- begins as we realize within us the presence and power of an interior stillness that neither needs, nor searches for, anything outside of itself in order to quietly know itself. (September 20)
Spiritual patience is born in us as we grow to realize that our individual lives are forever being revealed in a great clockwork whose tireless and timeless mainspring is Love. Our part in this inexorable movement of life is not to resist what appears untimely in its unfolding but -- providing we will remain open, watchful, and honest about what is being revealed -- to realize that everything needed for the perfection of our peace does arrive. (November 22)
Never speak out of anger,
Never act out of fear,
Never choose from impatience,
But wait... and peace will appear.
(December 28)