We are free.

“True freedom is not a matter of external circumstances. Rather, it’s an inward, perpetual state of letting go, of allowing what wants to reveal itself through us in service of the whole.”

To witness oneself in the midst of transformation can be both frightening and freeing. Frightening because we find ourselves moving toward a version of ourselves we haven’t yet seen. Freeing because we find ourselves moving toward a version of ourselves we haven’t yet seen.

You read that right.

Just as a part of us clings to our old identities, beliefs, and values as they slowly, or sometimes suddenly, fall away, there’s another part of us, a truer part of us, that knows these things must go in order to embrace the expansion that lies on the other side.

The pieces of ourselves we must leave behind in order to reveal our truest form, the call for deep surrender, the unexpected grief — it’s all so…necessary.

And perhaps through the grief we realize: true freedom is not a matter of external circumstances. Rather, it’s an inward, perpetual state of letting go, of allowing what wants to reveal itself through us in service of the whole.

So Spirit reveals these opportunities for transformation for us, at the exact moment that we have the capacity to live and integrate the lessons.

Some of those lessons we learn through ease and wisdom, and some we can’t help but learn through strife.

Either way, gratitude is in order, because as we begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel, we realize that, the entire time, we were only becoming more free.