Goodbye To All That

When Robert Graves wrote about his life in the trenches on the Western Front, he called his autobiography, Goodbye To All That, an apt title for a manuscript that bid a formal goodbye to the things of this world: forgetfulness, money, people.

Goodbye to all that. I thought it would be a fitting statement with which to greet the New Year. We can toast away all the things that give us unnecessary stress like old resentments, hatred, and anger; the needless emotional, physical, and financial debts we incur; the beliefs, teachings, dogmas, rules and regulations that keep us chained to the ground, preventing us from flying.

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