{"id":6371,"date":"2019-10-18T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?p=6371"},"modified":"2019-10-16T13:15:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T17:15:04","slug":"let-go-exchange-life-authentic-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2019\/10\/let-go-exchange-life-authentic-one.html","title":{"rendered":"Let Go and Exchange Your Life for an Authentic One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The basis of real life &#8212; of existence itself &#8212; is exchange; whatever appears or disappears is the momentary expression of this law. This is why the only thing that we can keep &#8212; that is authentically our own &#8212; is the Divine part of us that not only sees and understands this truth, but that stands in a stillness relative to it, as does the timeless night sky to the stars it reveals as they wink in and out of existence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?attachment_id=6372\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6372\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6372\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/92\/2019\/10\/qp-if-life-knocks-you-JC-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"stars and clouds in cosmos\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The basis of real life &#8212; of existence itself &#8212; is exchange; whatever appears or disappears is the momentary expression of this law. This is why the only thing that we can keep &#8212; that is authentically our own &#8212; is the Divine part of us that not only sees and understands this truth, but&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255,39],"tags":[2382,2203,44,60],"class_list":["post-6371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faithspirituality","category-meaning-of-life-lifes-purpose","tag-exchange","tag-immortal-self","tag-letting-go-2","tag-stillness"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Let Go and Exchange Your Life for an Authentic One - Letting Go with Guy Finley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2019\/10\/let-go-exchange-life-authentic-one.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Let Go and Exchange Your Life for an Authentic One - Letting Go with Guy Finley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The basis of real life &#8212; of existence itself &#8212; is exchange; whatever appears or disappears is the momentary expression of this law. 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