Drifting Awake » control http://www.richardfarrell.com Ripples from a little-boat life Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:43:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 in the amusement park… http://www.richardfarrell.com/2010/07/in-the-amusement-park/ http://www.richardfarrell.com/2010/07/in-the-amusement-park/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:43:41 +0000 Richard Farrell http://www.richardfarrell.com/?p=4117

in the amusement park of life we don’t take the rides, the rides take us

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there’s nothing to do but what we’re doing until the next moment when we’ll be doing that, whatever that may be

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looking forward into the stream of living,
I see hopes, dreams, plans, expectations;
looking back, it’s all the luck of the drift

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you can no more lead a horse to water than you can make him drink

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the notion that you are the author of your life, however popular and seemingly useful, is a basic ingredient in the recipe for suffering

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the illusion of control is the most fundamental (and cruelest) illusion of all

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a life organized around accumulating power is a life spent trying to control the outcomes in life

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always unaware -
how strong the desire for control -
until a moment of letting go

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if I could change my mind, I would

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