Q: Why do snakes shed their skin?
Try to do everything in the world with a mind that lets go. If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely, you will know complete peace and freedom. Your struggles with the world will have come to an end.
~Achaan Chan
Perfect! Yesterday I attended an online "BaseCamp" where the question was "what will I give up". My one word answer was "everything!". Yours? On another note David Whyte describes somewhere in his writing Moses at the burning bush. G_d asks Moses to what is most often translated as "take off your shoes" ( as if this is holy ground). He writes, though, that a more literal translation is "shed your skin". It is as if G_d is asking Moses to transform in that moment by letting go of who he was.