Action. Reaction. Aggravation. Alleviation.
Events happen all around us all the time. Sometimes we are directly involved in the events. Sometimes the events are whirlpools that suck us in. Other times the events eject us outward and barrel on by without noticing us. Never do we have control of the events. Always we have control over how the events affect us.
Controlling the events themselves is an illusion. Controlling our perception of the events is power.
Trying to control the process of events is actually giving up our control over ourselves. Controlling outside events is letting ourselves be controlled by the events. Our entire conciousness is taken over with trying to control matters that were never ours to control -- other people, places and things. It is akin to trying to herd cats. It is against the Laws of Nature. You can obtain the illusion of control for a short while at a great expense of personal power. But always, in the end, the events break the illusionary bonds.
The harder we attempt to control events the more relentlessy they advance to their original goals.
The only power within our grasp is the ability to control ourselves. We can decide how to act when presented with events, instead of letting events dictate our reactions. We can control our Selves. We can give power to events, or not, solely by our perception of them. Thus, by controlling ourselves we engage a Paradox, and control the event.
In a crisis we can react with the mob and lose control of our Selves, letting the crisis control us as it plays itself out. Or we can stop and decide what it is we need to do -- controlling our response, and thereby controlling the course of the crisis.
This can be done with events large and small, today and every day. We can be aggravated by all the little events that seek to trip us up, or we can use them as opportunities to change the course of our lives. Life is Change. Change is a Process. Sometimes we cannot see where the Path will take us, but it is enough to see where we are at this moment. Reacting to events leaves us blind to our place on the Path. Deciding on our Actions in light of the events opens our eyes to the Path we are on at that moment.
Or, perhaps it is as Aldous Huxley stated...
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
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