The outside world is so volatile that sometimes we can get caught caught fighting against the current. There is only so much of an ocean wave that we can control. Only so many mountains that we can move in a lifetime. But when we realize we can no longer fully control what it is outside that is bothering us, we have no choice but to look inward. To go to the only world we have absolute control of. The inner world of our thoughts, emotions, and actions.
I cannot change the other if they don’t wish to change, but I can always transform myself.
I might not be able to stop an entire ocean from flowing, but I can adapt and flow with the situation. We try our best to work with the outside world as much as we can. But we never forget that our highest power does not come from our ability to change what is outside us, but what is within us.
Our ability to adapt by letting go is much stronger than the ocean itself. When we mentally let go, we flow like water itself and do not break. When we reach that breaking point, instead of sacrificing ourselves, we simply stop mentally resisting to what already is.
Letting go is how we get our power back. It allows us to take action without creating unnecessary internal distress. It is the most powerful meditation that exists when performed correctly. It is an ability that is cultivated with a correct practice that eventually gives us the power over the inner world. Then paradoxically over the outer world as well.
