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Guilt

Monday Aug 25 2008

By Jim Selman | Bio

I have been talking about ‘completion’ a lot lately. It is basically that state of being where we can let the past be in the past and not try to control everything to make the future turn out the way we want it. Completion is a necessary state if we want live in the present. One of the things that keeps us from being complete is guilt. Guilt is a waste of time. It is blaming ourselves for whatever we think we’ve done wrong. As far as I can tell, it is also a cover-up for not being responsible for whatever we did that we’re feeling guilty about.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Fearless Aging

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Letting Go

Wednesday Sep 12 2007

Letting go is a big part of growing older. If letting go as we age means experiencing terrible losses to us, then we’ll feel as if whatever we are attached to is being snatched away as the years pass by. The key to serenity is to let go voluntarily.

There’s a difference between letting go as a choice and succumbing to the inevitable. For example, since we can’t do anything about global warming, we become resigned and decide we might as well let it go—by which we really mean we ‘give up’. Letting go isn’t the same as giving up. Letting go is choosing to accept life on life’s terms, to freely release attachments and enthusiastically embrace whatever comes next.
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Written by Jim Selman at Wisdom in Action
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