“The desire to control others, to have them in your power, is the ultimate evil.”
“El mero concepto de un organismo de control me revuelve el estómago tanto como los idiotas que pueden defender un sistema basado en la vigilancia perpetua. Nadie vigila nunca en verdad. Es otra ilusión de verificación imposible. Solo aquellos con las capacidades, medios y conocimientos específicos pueden auditar algo así. ¿Qué queda entonces para todo el resto? Confiar ciegamente.”
“Tonight, I need him. I need him with every cell in my body. I need him on so many levels I couldn t begin to sort through them or make sense of any of it. I need him with an urgency that scares me, because control is the one thing I will never relinquish, even to him.”
“When men set out to create order, they create only misery.”
“Surrender. An archer tries to master his bow, to force the arrow where he wants it to go. He tries with strength and focus and discipline to master it. He uses tougher gloves and stronger bowstrings and stiffer limbs, and restraint. But arrows are winged creatures, and will not be restrained. To shoot like that, one must surrender control.”
“CONTROL You carry both lightning and thunder in that space between your bones and soul. Become the storm you are hiding from; a hurricane does not run from the rain.”
“The minute you try to control anything else except yourself , is the defining moment when you, yourself, are out of control. .”
“The things you allow to control your mind will also control your perception of reality”
“Farmer owns the cow or cow owns the farmer? It depends from whose perspective you see it. There is no one-way street here. Ownership is an illusion created by ego. Things you own own you. People you control control you.”
“Since you cannot control any circumstance, learn to cast your cares upon the Lord.”
“The separation of church and state protects people of all faiths and no faith. No religion should be able to exercise control over a government and thereby dictate its theology onto any diverse group of free people.”
“No matter how you civilised it, the body remained somewhat wild, or savage, or natural. It had to keep up its animal functions, or die. It could never be fully tamed, fully controlled. Even plants, Luis learned from listening to Hsing’s father, however manipulated to serve their symbiotic functions, were not totally predictable or obedient; and the bacteria populations came up constantly with “wild” breeds, possibly dangerous mutations. The only things that could be perfectly controlled were inanimate, the matter of the world, the elements and compounds, solid, liquid, or gas, and the artifacts made from them. What about the controller, the civiliser itself, the mind? Was it civilised? Did it control itself?”
“People are like the weather. We can t control it. So protect yourself from the elements best as you can.”
“Much of the stress in our lives comes as a result of our insistence on maintaining the illusion of control. We so desperately want to be strong enough to handle the trials and tribulations of life that we literally drive ourselves into the ground rather than admit our desperate need. Often God allows us to reach the breaking point for our own good. Only in those moments of rare clarity that come from bottoming out will we allow ourselves to admit how little control we actually have. In those moments, the only thing we can do is throw ourselves headlong into the grace of God. In these moments, the pain and suffering actually drive us to him.”
“Control is an illusion. We don’t even have control over the next heart beat!”
“Reclaim the drivers seat of your life. Stop allowing others to navigate. You are the only one with the right directions.”
“The only way to truly take back full control of your life is to uncover it all. Not just the parts that lifted your spirits, but also the ones that lowered them too. If certain details remain hidden from your view, they will continue to unknowingly reveal themselves in your everyday thoughts and actions until you do.”