Hold Fast and Let Go

Here then is the first pole of life's paradoxical demands on us : Never be too busy for the wonder and the awe of life. Be reverent before each dawning day. Embrace each hour. Seize each golden minute.

Hold fast to life... but not so fast that you cannot let go. This is the second side of life's coin, the opposite side of this paradox : we must accept our losses, and learn how to let go.

Alexander M. Schindler