Ancient legends and unsolved mysteries have always appealed to me. I used to spend hours reading about tales of mysterious happenings and, most of all, historical myths. I loved stories of King Arthur and the Holy Grail.
Rufus M Jones says:
It is the secret of everybody's power. All work of every sort that has a touch of genius in it has come out of consecration, and it has come from somebody that forgot himself in his work.The photograph of Sir Galahad was taken in the church at Haworth. It's a really beautiful stained glass window. And the words just appealed to me. Above his head is a glowing image of the Holy Grail - which represents the mystical quest for self understanding and mastery.
It's very hard to let go. It's so much easier to cling on, to hold on to what's familiar, what you know, what's comforting. But there are times when you know that clinging on is not in your best interests. Even so, you resist.
It's often only through painful experience and several dark nights of the soul, that you discover the gift of letting go. Many times I've tried every other possible avenue before I've finally given in and, within a short space of time, discovered that letting go was the best thing I could have done.
The letting go of things, sometimes people, makes room in your life for the things or people that you need at that time.
Sometimes you have to be prepared to lose everything, yourself included, in order to find your way again and your self.
From "The Holy Grail" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson:
In our great hall there stood a vacant chair,
Fashion’d by Merlin ere he past away,
And carven with strange figures; and in and out
The figures, like a serpent, ran a scroll
Of letters in a tongue no man could read.
And Merlin call’d it ‘The Siege perilous,’
Perilous for good and ill; ‘for there,’ he said,
‘No man could sit but he should lose himself:’
And once by misadvertence Merlin sat
In his own chair, and so was lost; but he,
Galahad, when he heard of Merlin’s doom,
Cried, ‘If I lose myself, I save myself!’
