The Soul Work of Losing Control

The relief of loosening your tense hold on yourself, of giving up the struggle and recognizing that there is no battle to fight, except of your own making, may bring a calmness you have forgotten existed within you. In your tense effort to control yourself you have been releasing more and more adrenalin and so further exciting your organs to produc

We can only become compassionate toward our life and toward those around us when we are no longer preoccupied with trying to control the uncontrollable.

To understand this in context, I should like to say to you now: if you derive your sense of self only from the ego faculties, giving up the ego must seem terribly frightening. And right here is where you are caught in an insoluble conflict as long as you remain stuck in it: Unfoldment and pleasure, delight and creative living, fulfillment and happi

The point arrives, then, when it is clearly understood that all one’s intentional acts-desires, ideals, stratagems-are in vain. In the whole universe, within and without, there is nothing whereon to lay any hold, and no one to lay any hold on anything. This has been discovered through clear awareness of everything that seemed to offer a solution or

The foundational choice we have in life is either constantly control life to compensate for our blockages or devote our lives to getting rid of our blockages.