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Control vs. Trust
Often we’d prefer to have control over hell than to trust in heaven.
Often we’d prefer to have control over hell than to trust in heaven.
If things don’t turn out the way we had so meticulously planned them to go, we resort to blaming ourselves for not having done enough, or not having done things differently. We’d rather spend hours suffering and grieving over an outcome than muster up the courage it takes to allow ourselves to move forward. As if fantasizing about having a time machine to go back and change things makes our grief any less painful to bear.
The simple notion that we could accept things as they are and keep our focus on the horizon can feel almost as difficult as building a time machine itself.
But trusting that the universe has your back takes even more than courage: it takes patience.
Eckhart Tolle explores this idea of trusting in the divine unfolding of events through the story of a wise man who won an expensive car in a lottery.
Upon hearing the news, his family and friends were very happy for him and went over to celebrate. ‘Isn’t it great!’ they said. ‘You are so lucky!’
The man just smiled and said, ‘Maybe.’
