Alan Watts shares his philosophy on letting go of controlling everything.
In giving away the control - you've got it! You got the kind of control you wanted. That is to say where you had a loving relationship with the world, but you did not have to make up your mind what it should do. You let it decide.
Now, do you see? That's how your body works. You don't have to make up your mind to what your nerve cells are going to do. You delegated all that authority.
You make an act of trust to all of your subordinate organs to carry on their functions without you having to tell them what to do.
This is the secret of organic power.
The more, therefore, you relinquish power and trust others, the more powerful you become. But in such a way that instead of having to lie awake nights controlling everything, you do it beautifully by entrusting the job to everyone else. And, they carry it out for you. So, you can go to sleep at night and trust your nervous system to wake you up in the morning. And it will wake you up just like an alarm clock.
The principle of unity - of coming to a sense of Oneness with the whole of the rest of the Universe - is not to try to obtain power over the entire Universe. The way to become one with the Universe is to trust it as you would another and say, "Let's see what you're going to do."
Release control and go with the flow! That's what the Energy of Life is about. Allow it in, receive it with gratitude & give it all away in an effortless & powerful flow!
In giving away the control - you've got it! You got the kind of control you wanted. That is to say where you had a loving relationship with the world, but you did not have to make up your mind what it should do. You let it decide.
Now, do you see? That's how your body works. You don't have to make up your mind to what your nerve cells are going to do. You delegated all that authority.
You make an act of trust to all of your subordinate organs to carry on their functions without you having to tell them what to do.
This is the secret of organic power.
The more, therefore, you relinquish power and trust others, the more powerful you become. But in such a way that instead of having to lie awake nights controlling everything, you do it beautifully by entrusting the job to everyone else. And, they carry it out for you. So, you can go to sleep at night and trust your nervous system to wake you up in the morning. And it will wake you up just like an alarm clock.
The principle of unity - of coming to a sense of Oneness with the whole of the rest of the Universe - is not to try to obtain power over the entire Universe. The way to become one with the Universe is to trust it as you would another and say, "Let's see what you're going to do."
Release control and go with the flow! That's what the Energy of Life is about. Allow it in, receive it with gratitude & give it all away in an effortless & powerful flow!