Attachment

Attachment to outcomes will destroy you.

Attachment to outcomes other than love degrade and destroy me because they simply fire up my desire to win and be right. The need to win is a never ending cycle of misery. You might hear that argument and think to yourself, “Yes, that is true for everyone except me because as it happens I am right!”

Great, you probably are, but attachment to your rightness especially when you are right will still destroy you.

Look at the world….sometimes it seems that all we do is fight. I win this time, you win next time, then maybe I win twice in a row, then you win three times, then we both lose because someone else we didn’t even know was competing comes on the field and wins 10 in a row. Life becomes a strange game in which the goal is gaining power. 

That’s how you waste your life and squander the gift of love.

Attachment to outcome will destroy us.

The only thing that matters is love and a desire to do God’s will which is to love whoever and whatever is right in front of us. To attach yourself to the outcome is to set up residency in a cul-de-sac of despair. To look for God always and love whoever is right in front of you is true freedom and the pathway into the open field of peace.