[What did I learn today? Lessons on the Journey to Unconditional Self Love] There's not a damn thing you can control.

There's not a damn thing you can control. Not one. But most of your
suffering comes from believing you can. Maxie Mc Coy

I was at a spoken word event last night, really deep stuff, teaching youths
using the oral traditions, and I met a young lady who I had a lovely
breakfast meeting with early last year She reminded me that we spoke about control and she admitted to me that she
was a control freak and thought I was too cool about everything. She
started volunteering with charity's and said it was the best thing she ever
did because she knows for sure now that there is not a thing that she can
control but herself. I laughed because I could relate to her and learnt
that control is illusions or many times a form of fear!

I learnt that control and responsibility are two different things Responsibility - my ability to respond to the reality of now Control - trying to make things different especially when you are fearful,
wanting to manipulate a situation to suit your fancy- mainly because of
fear.

Getting by in this life unscathed is nearly impossible. Fearing pain and
fearing hurt is practically a waste of time because it's exactly what will
happen, at some point. But yet we still fear it. And that fear is oh so
normal. So ask yourself - do I want to be in control or do I want to be at peace? Peace

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Unconditional Self Love on 2/27/2016 11:56:00 am