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“I let go of a grudge I'd carried for years and felt years lighter.”
You'd been paying interest on that grudge for a long time — carrying it, feeding it, letting it take up rooms in your head. Today you set it down and felt how heavy it had been. The dead carry nothing. While you live, every grudge you release is finite time and energy returned to you. You just got some of your life back.
Your Practice
- Notice the relief. That's the measure of what the grudge was costing you.
- Don't pick it back up. When the old story tempts you, remember the lightness.
- Free the energy you spent on resentment toward something you actually want.
- If there's one more grudge in the bag, ask whether your finite life can afford it.
The Architects
“Confine yourself to the present.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book VII.29 (George Long translation; Internet Classics Archive, MIT)