Dr. Brett’s Thoughts:
A former neighbor in Westport, CT sent me this pic yesterday. It shows a cute little house on a great property with every tree but one recently cut down. I sold the house in April and it will soon be demolished. Having outgrown my experience there I finally let the house go, a huge challenge after nearly eighteen years of home ownership.
Most people resist change. 2500 years ago the Buddha talked a lot about impermanence – the essential nature of life on this planet. All things change and yet most of us spend so much time resisting this truth. What if we could learn to embrace change and to live knowing that to cling onto things is folly and only invites suffering? What if we could let go more and thus suffer less? I truly believe living this way is possible but we need to practice with little things; learn to accept little things more and notice how that gradually changes your perspective on the larger things in life!
