Tag surfing is a lot like a Box of Chocolate.

      You never know what you’re going to get until you “Bite into the Post.“

     Letting Go can Really Pull You Altogether

With all due respect to Forrest Gump, I got quite a bite out of the tag for “Letting go” recently. An article “pulled” me in, as I chewed word after word, savoring the taste of something new but instantly familiar.  The post explained the best process for “Letting Go” that I have ever encountered, and I knew I had to share it with others immediately upon reading it. What hit me, however, was the name of the author quoted.

     A student in a reflexology classes a month earlier advised me to read a book by the same writer. I began to read, and I felt I was just introduced to a “new teacher” for my life, someone who would show me a new way of viewing the world. The more I read, the more I related to the book’s findings, which seemed to confirm something I had already known, but could never put into words.

     Now, tasting a second piece of that box of chocolate, I know I have more exploring do to with the same author. Watch out. Before you know it, I will have devoured the entire container of goodies. Below shows my “Eureka” moment upon surfing Gilda’s Post:

Comparing letting go to crucifixion

by Gildap

     Dear Gilda,

     I just had one of those “O My God” moments while reading your post. Your quote about a gradual death versus an immediate annihilation hit me right at home, but what devastated me was the source of the quote: Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee.

     I just started reading “The Call and The Echo,” by the same author. It was so moving that I, too, wrote a post, quoting the book. See Longing

     The Sufis, Vaughan-Lee says, are an Islamic sect out of old Persia, who wrote beautiful verses to their “Beloved.” I interpreted the “Beloved” to be a joining of God with the Divine Self, in other words, God and me!

Awakening to the Sufi Understanding of God

     My first encounter with the Sufi, however, was with a post I wrote stating that “To Serve God is to Serve Humanity.” I got one of those “See related stories” at the bottom of my article. Can’t Hurry God (Part III)

     I surfed to the site, something to do with a fellow’s “Sufi homeboy,” and I saw my exact message. But it was delivered a thousand years ago! By Sufis. Who believed you are in communion with God when you are in Service to Others.

     I took that to include not only humans, but animals and All of Creation.

     And now — for the third time (good things happen in threes, you know) — I come across a similar note [in your post].

     This ain’t no simple coincidence. This, my dear Watson, (as Mr. Holmes might say), is Synchronicity.

     Elementary synchronicity!

     – Michael J 

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