A Continuous Letting Go

A continuous letting go: 

the misconception is that surrender is something we do, that it's just another willful act but this time one of defeat or last resort. Yet the truth is the our entire life is a continuous letting go, nothing about us is ever constantly lasting, at least not in any meaningful way - and it's through this process we that we find ourselves evolving, becoming versions of versions of our essential point of being. 

life is always giving itself way.

a continuous letting go.

and in this way we are eternal.

by this I don't mean to imply that there is some single entity that continues onward through these changes, a lasting self that survives through endless cycles of surrender. It's the very absence of this rigid sense of self that allows to continue as life, its bare essence, flowing from this appearance to yet another beautiful appearance, a simple rearrangement of our form.

in other words...a continuous letting go. 

and also a becoming. 

it's truly one thing.

with this realization we can flow through life with perhaps a bit more ease, not grasping so tightly to that which is already changing, knowing that in any surrender we are just evolving to another version of our infinite possibilities of being. We are simply being rearranged. Mindful surrender is a form of art really, it's the medium of giving attention to the subtle motion of our lives, noting this continuous letting go and meeting it with courage and compassion. We're all artist in this way, gaining in skill as life goes on, indeed, that it's an endless practice. 

a continuous letting go.

~

Peace, Eric