| "...A witch doctor from South Africa told me how they catch
monkeys there. They bore a hole in a pumpkin large enough to slip in
a banana, then they reach through the hole with a spoon, clean out the
inside, and drop in the banana. When a monkey comes around, he
smells the banana inside the pumpkin, sticks his little forearm in there,
feels around, grabs hold of that banana, and then he's stuck. His
brain will not tell him to free his hand he's got to release that
banana. He just hold on.
That's the way of a lot
of human beings today - holding on to that banana for years. You
haven't let go of your old hurts and disappointments. There are
many, many things that happen in your life that you should have gotten rid
of, but you're still holding on to them, you still have a big dialogue
going on....
Now what happens?
You are given a choice when you hold on to that banana. A choice
either to let go or to blame that stupid old pumpkin: If it wasn't
for that pumpkin, I'd be out there free."...
There are many, many ways
to let go of our bananas, so to speak....
When you learn and say,
"I did it," and you accept that fact, then you have dealt with something
that's been nagging you for years and years and years. You have
finally let go of the banana of that situation and it doesn't come and nag
you all the time....
When you release AND
relinquish, then you're okay. But if you just release, it will keep
coming back, over and over and over to bug you. Relinquish if you
really want to
release."... |
