A Dog and its Bone

There is a nice Sufi story about letting go.

An old dog had been badly abused and was near starvation. One day the dog found a bone, carried it to a safe spot, and started gnawing away. The dog was so hungry that it chewed on the bone for a long time and got every last bit nourishment that it could out of it. After some time, a kind old man noticed the dog and its pathetic scrap and began quietly setting food out for it. But the poor hound was so attached to its bone that it refused to let go of it and soon starved to death.

It is important, to question and let go of our outdated beliefs, habits, patterns, behaviours when life gives us another chance.