The Sacred Dance of Holding On and Letting Go: A Meditation on Grief, Becoming, and the Wisdom of the Soul

"Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead, let life live through you." Rumi We often speak of life as a journey, as if it were a straight path from one point to another. But the soul knows otherwise. Life does not move in lines. It spirals. It circles back, it folds in, it expands out. It is rhythm, breath, tide. We pull in what we long for: people, dreams, meanings. Just as surely, life will ask us to release them. This ebb and flow is not a flaw in the design. It is the design. To hold is natural. To let go is sacred. Grief, when it arrives, does not come to shatter. It comes to reveal. Not in words, but in the stillness that follows after they have all been spoken. When the world quiets and the echo of what was once dear reverberates in the chambers of the heart, something ancient within us begins to awaken. It is not just pain that stirs. It is perception. Grief does not merely wound. It widens. We begin to see. The sorrow in a stranger’s eyes. The lone...