Let Go of the Future

ANDREW COHEN





While most of us want to be free, there is a part of us that is terrified at the prospect. Is there anything that we can do to make the part of us that wants to be free stronger than the part that is afraid? You have to be willing to make a choice. So many seekers are only waiting for all of their fear and resistance to go away . If you're serious about this, you don't have the time to wait. You have to come to the point where you don't care how difficult it is.To find true confidence, you must be able to bear more doubt and confusion than you ever have in the past. Too many people only want the kind of confidence that they don't have to struggle for, that they don't have to make any sacrifice for.When we are willing to abandon the future, it is then that we have finally stopped waiting. And that means that we realise that a better moment will never come.
We are always waiting for the perfect moment to let go -to be ready to respond completely, wholeheartedly and without any hesitation. So, when that moment actually does come, we are not able to let go. When we ultimately find the depth of courage and the strength of conviction to abandon the future once and for all, we will discover a context, a vast and infinite context where we will know beyond any doubt that we are free.
And in that freedom we will be detached. But that doesn't mean that we won't care. It means that we will care even more, because we are not worried about ourselves any more.