Sometimes life feels like we’ve been sloshed around in a washing machine. Sooner or later life contrives to pry our fingers off the reality we’ve been clinging to and leaves us in free-fall, feeling lost and devastated. We call it divorce or getting fired or mid-life crisis. We wind up in the abyss, the void, the unknown or whatever your present perspective would like to call it.
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When this happens Mother Nature is teaching us a lesson about herself. It’s frightening but at the same time we are learning to let go of identity with a single reality. It’s not simply an intellectual process any more than playing the violin comes from an intellectual understanding of music.
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We are compelled to let go of each new-found reality one by one until we don’t feel it necessary to hang on so tightly any longer. We learn to move freely from one reality to the next as the moment calls for.
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Eventually we realize that life is not made of a single pie-in-the-sky ultimate reality.
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The process can feel threatening and be uncomfortable at times. It’s the churning process of life.
