Rediscovering Ourselves: Navigating Identity in Life Transitions

When we have grappled with a problem for so long, we become so intimately attached to it in a perverse way. It becomes difficult to imagine life all of a sudden without the problem. This can be corrected by cultivating the awareness that we exist independently of all the conditions in our lives.

It can also be very empowering to let go of who we think we are, and step fully into a present moment undefined by our past experience.

when we can name the experience, we can let go of the old and open to the new.

Freed from your old life patterns, you can seek, find, and embrace your essential self much more easily than you could before everything went haywire.

Growth itself is a process of creation and destruction. A new you is constantly being formed as the old you decays and becomes formless. Hanging on to the remnants of the past will only delay your arrival into the present. If you want to live in a way that supports your freedom, you have no other option but to let go.

ongoing process of transcending our identities, and including them in a new and more expansive way of being in the world. • Self-generation