Letting Go: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Nearly eighteen years have passed since my teacher, a wise and wonderful man—“VH” as he was called by his inner circle of students—suggested that I write a book. Little did I know what he was really asking of me, but for his gesture I am forever in his debt. At the time, Vernon Howard was the quietly respected, much-revered author of more than twenty-five wonderful spiritual books. To have his continual encouragement and no-nonsense editorial comments on my initial writings was priceless. And so it was that about a year and a half later, in 1990, my good friends at Llewellyn published the first version of The Secret of Letting Go. In your hands is the new edition of that work. Over these many years since I started writing about the unlimited life inherent in letting go, thousands of grateful readers from all around the world have shared with me—in one way or another—the fruit of their discoveries along the way. Let me summarize these special impressions for you. In varying degrees, each has realized that letting go and spiritual growth are as rain is to a field of wildflowers; that we