Let People Be in Charge of Themselves

In response, I raised both my eyebrows at him and finished my thought. “Instead of making you passive, energetic acceptance produces something quite different. You accept the natural process of living that constitutes human existence. As a result, you no longer try to control life, and a paradox now presents itself. Because you’ve let go of your ne

When you let other people stress you out, you surrender your power to things that either don’t matter or are beyond your control.

You never had control; all you had was anxiety. And when you let go of that, even a little bit, what you’re left with is one of the most powerful reasons imaginable for taking any action that feels as though it might make life more meaningful or vibrant, which is that frankly, at the end of the day, you might as well.