PRACTICING NONATTACHMENT

When you believe some person, place, thing, or situation must stay in its “rightful” place, exactly as it is, for you to be happy, then you have confused this external thing with who you are. In short, you have created an attachment.

When this external thing changes, and eventually everything does, how will you react? If you have placed your sense of self in it, then you will have to fight for it, you will have to argue for it; in the process, you will create suffering for yourself and those around you.

Practice

Today, remember that you are always you, whole and complete. People, places, and things come and go, but there is nothing outside you that can change your beautiful perfection.

Living a Life of Awareness

~ Don Miguel Ruiz Jr.