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Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Letting Go… Emptying

We’ve heard it all before. Whenever the New Year comes, we should let go of all of the negativities we have in our hearts. This is so we can have a fresh start. What surprised me was the homily of the priest in the New Year’s mass I attended.

He said that we should also let of ALL of the GOOD things that happened to us in the past year. He mentioned that if we rest on our laurels, so to speak, we would tend to lay back and stop aiming to achieve something better. Should we hold on to the good things in our life, we would hinder our growth process and never reach our full potentials. It makes sense right?

This weekend, I heard a further improvement on this concept. It is not enough that we let go of the bad AND the GOOD things, we should also EMPTY ourselves time and again.


If we empty ourselves from time to time, we become receptive to fresh ideas. If we empty ourselves, we leave more room for improvement. If we empty ourselves, we leave ourselves open to have our inner viewpoint be rearranged.

6 comments:

reymendoza said...

blogging is good, especially for writers like you.

You just have to realize that sometimes you dont want to write, so it's ok to write even once a week or bi weekly. After a few months you will realize you have written a lot.

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Anonymous said...

I agree.. It's even good for non-writers like me. It's a good outlet and, at the same time, a nice way of letting your friends (at least those that care) know what you are up to..

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