An inner voice asked, ‘What would happen if, in this moment, I didn’t try to do anything, to make anything different?’ I immediately felt the visceral grip of fear and then a familiar sinking hole of shame – the very feelings I had been trying to avoid for as long as I could remember.

But then the same inner voice whispered very quietly, familiar refrain, ‘Just let it be.

Tara Brach

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