On letting go................................................

     All day long the mind and soul are enmeshed in countless relations and contacts, truths and errors, virtures and vices, the din of the market, the folly and fury of the streets through which we pass, and it becomes soiled, jarred, shocked, fevered, often exalted and often sinking into despair.  In short, what happens to the hands and body also happens to the soul;  it becomes soiled, worn and disfigured and needs cleansing and renewing, and to do this the soul must have to "let go" what it is doing, what it holds and open itself, uplift itself unto the source of its Life, which is God.  But it cannot do so unless it learns to "let go."
-John S. Bunting,  The Secret of a Quiet Mind


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