Often, after I have talked on detachment, my friends respond that detachment feels too cold, disconnected, impersonal, even lonely, for them.
But that is not an accurate perception of the true meaning of detachment. ...
This is the meaning I intend: the realization that no one person or group of people can determine your life's path - that it is solely between you and God. Thus, when change comes into your life, it is because a far larger dynamic than human relationships is moving it and you along. It may look like a person or group has conspired to have you removed from a certain situation - but that is an illusion. If you choose to believe that illusion, it will hold you captive, maybe even for a lifetime. But if it hadn't been the right moment for you to move on, the 'conspiracy' to remove you would not have been successful.
That is the higher truth of change, and the symbolic sight that accompanies detachment allows you to see it. ...The goal of becoming a conscious person is not to get your way, to outwit people or situations, to become immune to disease or death. The goal is to be able to handle any changes in our lives - and in our bodies - gracefully, without fear, looking only to absorb the message of truth contained in the change. Regarding the expansion of consciousness, it is a misinterpretation to view its purpose as insurance against bad things, physical illness, or death. Mastery of the physical is not the goal of becoming conscious; mastery of the spirit is the goal. The physical world, and the physical body, serves only as teachers and classrooms along the way. In keeping with this perception, healing the fear of death and dying - in other words, detaching from our physical form - is an aspect of the tranquility that the human spirit is capable of achieving through the journey of becoming conscious. ...My heart goes out to people who are working so hard to release their negative attitudes and painful memories. 'Just tell me how, and I'll do it,' they say over and over again. We are forever looking for the calming meditation, the easy exercise, that will lift us out of the fog, but consciousness doesn't work that way. Ironically, there is a simple way out, only it's not easy: just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be; detach from your demands and expectations and embrace the life that is trying to live itself through you. So many people struggling to find their way are in that necessary but confusing state of waiting. A part of each of them is eager to allow God's will to direct their lives for real, yet they remain tormented by the fear that they will lose all comfort and security on the physical plane should they actually surrender to it, so they remain painfully bound, fretfully holding themselves in a waiting position until they are strong enough to detach from that fear, and other people or things that help them manage it, and embrace the deeper truth that 'all will be well' - not 'well' by our definition, perhaps, but certainly by God's."
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