attachment

"your attachment to certain things, certain pathways, certain outcomes, causes pain.  it impedes your flow."

millie shows me people floating in a river.  some are floating along with the current, but most have their hands stuck to something on the bank -- a house, a car, another person, or something more abstract.  as the current pulls against them, their arms stretch out like a cartoon.  it looks funny, but it isn't.  it is painful to be pulled that way.  eventually the substance (stubbornness?) that sticks them to the things on the bank will fail, but it won't part gently, it will rip, leaving chunks of them behind with the thing they were hanging on to.

"the universe will give you what you need, but not necessarily what you THINK you need.  if you learn to let go, to go with the flow, life becomes easier, more joyful, less painful.  life *is* flow.


let go.  trust that you will float.  let go of the need for control.  trust that you will have what you need.  let go of the attachment to specific things, ways to accomplish things, outcomes.  trust.  it is better to let go voluntarily than to find out the hard way just how strong this current is."

what about planning for the future?  isn't that important?

"as long as your future plans are fluid, able to adapt to and change with any change in the flow, future planning is a good thing.  it is only when the construction of those plans and dreams becomes rigid and inflexible that they pose a danger."

any advice for us on that?

"hold everything loosely.  your possessions, your loved ones, your dreams.  hold them as if they were baby birds that could be crushed with too much pressure.  hold them as though you are ready to let them go."

thank you, millie.