Falling Leaves - © Bijan Saha, Photographer
 
 
Have any of you noticed that sometimes when you try to create something
certain obstacles will come up which question exactly what you're trying to create?
I've wondered if this is some kind of test, you know,
to see how bad I really want the creation.

Surrender. Don't be attached to the outcome.
Continue with your efforts, and know that they are the right things
for you to do at the moment,
but surrender any attachment you have as to the outcome.

It's the attachment to outcome, to things being a certain way,
that brings us pain.
Peace comes with letting go, surrendering, and acceptance.
It also makes us more open to learning from our experience, instead of resisting it.
 
 
Michele J. Johnson
Excerpted from
When You Have A Critical Moment