Fall Leaves - From More Surrender
Learn from the trees.
Learn to let go of your worries,
your useless striving,
your attempts to control.
Learn to let go.
The leaves turn from green to yellow,
brilliant orange to brown.
Then the tree lets them go, one by one.
Floating in the air.
Light and dancing.
Free falling.
Drifting away.
How gently the tree lets go.
What do you need to release?
Just as the tree releases its leaves,
let it go.
Meister Eckhart
There, where clinging to things ends,
is where God begins to be.
If a cask is to contain wine,
you must first pour out water.
The cask must be bare and empty.
Therefore, if you wish to receive
divine joy and God, first pour
out your clinging to things.
Everything that is to receive
must and ought to be empty.
Psalm 142:3
When my spirit grows faint within me,
it is you who knows my way.