What we talk about when we talk about release

Our life’s work is far greater than any individual container. The works we do are at most chapters. There will always be a new chapter, and another after that. Though some might be better than others, that is not our concern. Our objective is to be free to close one chapter and move on to the next, and to continue that process for as long as it ple

combination of feeling and thought that had locked the story in his system, and when he could actually let both out, including the intellectual or thought-based part of the story, the emotion lifted, all by itself.

When you know that there is nothing but this experience called life, there is nothing to do but embrace it in all its complexity and simplicity, with all its joy and pain. When you understand why and how everyone struggles in life, your only wish is that they find freedom,

You were born free—free of stuff, free of burden. But since the first time they measured your tiny body for clothes, people have been foisting stuff upon you. And you’ve been adding links to the pile of chains yourself ever since.

Now we’re getting closer. This points to freedom as a state of being, a way of living free from concerns and burdens and worries. And again, many of us believe we’ll achieve this state of being once we’ve accomplished our goals, once we’ve defended our status, and once we’ve finally proven that we’re enough. But what if the opposite were true? Inst