“It is what it is.”

Like true love.

Not explainable by words or even feelings or emotions. It just is.

This is the counter to our suffering. 5 short words. 12 letters.

And with this statement, we can accept and embrace the most beautiful synchronicity in depth of love, and at the same time, the most heartbreaking grief in fragility of loss.

~ "To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go." -Mary Oliver

~ Love is simple, and is so complex.

The reality of impermanence highlights the human condition that everything changes, nothing is guaranteed, or truly predictable; nothing is solid, or promised to remain.

Dropping the tendency to grasp and control can actually make us feel safer and more secure in the ever-changing waves of life.  This is a paradox because it is our human nature to grasp at what might leave; to cling to what we fear as loss...but as we are able to let go and let be, we find freedom, safety, comfort, and ease.