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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 47425" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><em><u><span style="color: navy">Food for thought:</span></u></em></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #000080">LETTING GO</span></span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000080"><img src="http://www.motivateus.com/images/barpurp.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">[SIZE=-1]One evening a man was out walking, but he had become so absorbed is his own thoughts that, without realizing, had wandered way off course and was now completely lost. It was getting late and cold and would soon be dark. An hour or so passed and it was now pitch-black. He began to feel afraid and his steps became quicker and unsteady. [/SIZE]</span></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left">[SIZE=-1]<span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080">Suddenly, something underneath him gave way and he fell. He tumbled down and down and just as he way about to fall over a ledge he managed to grab onto a branch. But, he was now just hanging there. No way to climb back up and nothing but darkness below him.</span></span>[/SIZE]</p><p></p><p style="text-align: left">[SIZE=-1]<span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080">"Help! Somebody!! Please…Help me!" he cried out. …But no one came; it was a desolate place. He was terrified. His hands were freezing cold and he was losing his grip on the branch.</span></span>[/SIZE]</p><p></p><p style="text-align: left">[SIZE=-1]<span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080">There was no one to help!! In sheer desperation this man, who was an atheist, call out to God, "Please…please…if you're there…God…please help me, save me and I will believe in you always!!" Suddenly, and to his amazement, a voice echoed all around him, "Trust Me….Let Go…. I've Got You… Trust In Me."</span></span>[/SIZE]</p><p></p><p style="text-align: left">[SIZE=-1]<span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080">The man looked around him and below him and thought for a moment, then he mumbled to himself, "Let go? Trust? You must think I'm mad?? No way!"</span></span>[/SIZE]</p><p></p><p style="text-align: left">[SIZE=-1]<span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080">This story doesn't always end like this but I think that many people find themselves in this man's situation. Maybe not necessarily hanging from a branch in the middle of no where, but never the less in a desperate situation where all their deepest instincts are telling them just to let go, to surrender themselves to a higher, deeper power or energy of some kind, to drop… into the unknown, with just trust. But they are so full of doubt and fear that they just cling on instead.</span></span>[/SIZE]</p><p></p><p style="text-align: left">[SIZE=-1]<span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080">The alternate ending to this story is that the desperate man, sensing he has little choice, decides to let go. He falls into the void below, but moments later he finds himself on solid ground. It had been so dark that he could never have known that the ground was no more than about 20ft below. He was safe and unharmed. What's more, it turns out that the ground he has landed on is a pathway; the pathway he had been searching for all along - the route home!</span></span>[/SIZE]</p><p></p><p style="text-align: left">[SIZE=-1]<span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080">To me, this whole story is a lovely metaphor for having the courage to trust what is deepest within us, no matter what, to have the nerve to surrender to ourselves.</span></span>[/SIZE]</p><p></p><p style="text-align: left">[SIZE=-1]<span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080">We will get a beautiful surprise. The dark void is actually the source of all life. The 'ground' below is actually the "Ground of Being", which is another way of saying God, which is another way of saying our truest, realest Nature. This is most definitely the way home! </span></span>[/SIZE]</p><p></p><p style="text-align: left">[SIZE=-1]<span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080">--- <strong>Written in 2006 by Simon Heighwaya</strong> </span></span>[/SIZE]</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #810081"><a href="http://www.motivateus.com/stories/spirituality.htm" target="_blank">Spirituality means letting go and having the courage to trust what is deepest within us, to surrender to ourselves.</a></span></span></span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>----------------------------------------</p><p>----------------------------------------</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>----------------------------------------</p><p>----------------------------------------</p><p></p><p></p><p>----------------------------------------</p><p>----------------------------------------</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 47425, member: 884"] [I][U][COLOR=navy]Food for thought:[/COLOR][/U][/I] [B][FONT=arial][SIZE=5][COLOR=#000080]LETTING GO[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [CENTER][COLOR=#000080][IMG]http://www.motivateus.com/images/barpurp.gif[/IMG][/COLOR][/CENTER] [LEFT][COLOR=#000080][FONT=Arial][SIZE=-1]One evening a man was out walking, but he had become so absorbed is his own thoughts that, without realizing, had wandered way off course and was now completely lost. It was getting late and cold and would soon be dark. An hour or so passed and it was now pitch-black. He began to feel afraid and his steps became quicker and unsteady. [/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT] [LEFT][SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000080]Suddenly, something underneath him gave way and he fell. He tumbled down and down and just as he way about to fall over a ledge he managed to grab onto a branch. But, he was now just hanging there. No way to climb back up and nothing but darkness below him.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/LEFT] [LEFT][SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000080]"Help! Somebody!! Please…Help me!" he cried out. …But no one came; it was a desolate place. He was terrified. His hands were freezing cold and he was losing his grip on the branch.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/LEFT] [LEFT][SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000080]There was no one to help!! In sheer desperation this man, who was an atheist, call out to God, "Please…please…if you're there…God…please help me, save me and I will believe in you always!!" Suddenly, and to his amazement, a voice echoed all around him, "Trust Me….Let Go…. I've Got You… Trust In Me."[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/LEFT] [LEFT][SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000080]The man looked around him and below him and thought for a moment, then he mumbled to himself, "Let go? Trust? You must think I'm mad?? No way!"[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/LEFT] [LEFT][SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000080]This story doesn't always end like this but I think that many people find themselves in this man's situation. Maybe not necessarily hanging from a branch in the middle of no where, but never the less in a desperate situation where all their deepest instincts are telling them just to let go, to surrender themselves to a higher, deeper power or energy of some kind, to drop… into the unknown, with just trust. But they are so full of doubt and fear that they just cling on instead.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/LEFT] [LEFT][SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000080]The alternate ending to this story is that the desperate man, sensing he has little choice, decides to let go. He falls into the void below, but moments later he finds himself on solid ground. It had been so dark that he could never have known that the ground was no more than about 20ft below. He was safe and unharmed. What's more, it turns out that the ground he has landed on is a pathway; the pathway he had been searching for all along - the route home![/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/LEFT] [LEFT][SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000080]To me, this whole story is a lovely metaphor for having the courage to trust what is deepest within us, no matter what, to have the nerve to surrender to ourselves.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/LEFT] [LEFT][SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000080]We will get a beautiful surprise. The dark void is actually the source of all life. The 'ground' below is actually the "Ground of Being", which is another way of saying God, which is another way of saying our truest, realest Nature. This is most definitely the way home! [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/LEFT] [LEFT][SIZE=-1][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000080]--- [B]Written in 2006 by Simon Heighwaya[/B] [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/LEFT] [CENTER][COLOR=#000080][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][COLOR=#810081][URL="http://www.motivateus.com/stories/spirituality.htm"]Spirituality means letting go and having the courage to trust what is deepest within us, to surrender to ourselves.[/URL][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/CENTER] ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- [/QUOTE]
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