The book that tells this great story to his disciples about a guy who

is, you know, he comes to a river. The river is very choppy. He cannot cross it. If he swims

across trips, attempts to swim across it, he's going to die. So he spends months building a

raft, right? Building a robust enough raft that will get him across the river. And so he finally

does, he builds a really heavy robust raft, gets across the river, gets to the other side,

and then the sort of almost parable or the riddle that puts to his disciples is like

okay, so now he's got this raft, but he knows the rest of his destination is on foot.

So what does he do? Does he leave the raft or does he pick this raft up and carry it on his head?

And the disciples are all like well of course he leaves the raft behind. It doesn't need it anymore.

And the book this whole point is yeah, but the way we live our lives is we all have the,

a lot of us have this raft that we've sort of built and now we feel like we need to carry it with us.

And that raft doesn't necessarily need to represent bad things. It can, I mean abusive relationships,

you know, past situations where we felt really hurt and we just have a really tough time letting go,

but oftentimes that raft can represent good things. It can represent a lot of grief and represent,

you know, a success that we feel like now we have to build on top of that or that in some ways

that linearly needs to connect to whatever we do next, but in a lot of ways what it's doing is just

shackling us down.

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