Letting Go

Growing into adulthood involves a lot of getting.

Then we get to a certain age and we start letting go of things.  As Marion Woodman says in "The Crown of Age," certain objects had resonance for us, then they do no longer do--and we pass them on to someone for whom they can have fresh energy.

The best story I know about letting go is the one about Zen monks who create intricate mandalas out of colored sand, then--as soon as they are finished, they let the wind sweep them away. They don't frame them, hoard them, or display them; the point is the doing, not the keeping.

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