Let go or stick with it?
Sometimes "Let go" sounds like spiritual advice – light, wise, liberating.
But often hidden within it is the old "Don't feel it!"„
Silencing.
The belittling.
My text is about why genuine feeling doesn't weaken, but connects.
Why grief, anger, and pain can be sacred spaces.
And why "letting go" sometimes divides rather than heals – especially when it makes suffering invisible and leaves injustice unnamed.
Sometimes life changes so suddenly that a familiar level disappears – a farewell, a loss, a transition.
Then questions arise that cannot be ignored: What is the meaning of life? What is the purpose of my continued existence? And that is precisely where the search begins, a search I cannot simply resolve.
In June, I often feel how fragile freedom remains. Pride Month reminds us that people must constantly fight for the right to simply be themselves—without fear, without justification, without defensiveness. And it raises an old question anew: Why does the unfamiliar sometimes affect us so deeply, and why do we find it so difficult not to reject it, but to embrace it?
To maintain balance between ourselves and others, we also need retreat, like in a kiva – again and again, to regain clarity about our path. The synthesis: integration of both sides.
„Love your neighbor as yourself“ (Mark 12:31) – this is not a choice between two options, nor is it: first one, then the other. It means an integration of both poles.
Billy McDonald, iStock -2189417472
English (UK) 
Deutsch