Now usually I would make a joke about the paradoxical nature of the principle or how the principle seems completely useless, but I cannot with this one (yet). For me to be able to write honestly about this one for you, I have to embrace it within myself first and live by this principle if I am going to live the path of change that I am preaching. I'm having a tough time being ready to die. To truly let go of the person I have been for so long and the person I am right now. Only one day after I set an alarm to remind myself to write, I was not able to yesterday because this was the topic. It is not easy to let parts of ourselves fade into the past, to let the version of who we were die, so we can be reborn into the vision of ourself to which we aspire.
There is one part I should make clear, being accepting of death for the varying parts of ourselves does not mean that it needs to occur, only that we fully allow it to happen. We do not resist the death of our past self. For myself, letting go of the crutches that I use to deal with anxiety and depression scares me. To lay to rest how I binge watch videos, or eat when I'm bored, they are small things, but they are activities I use to deal with different internal pains that I feel. To let them go means that I must face the pains that lie underneath.
There will be more to say on this principle.