To Supriti about inquiry ends in faith

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Dear Supriti ~ thank you so much for sharing all that you did. You model a

very wonderful practice for those of us who grew up in out of control families

and hence feel a need to control organize, or be the best, or do it the most

quickly ... I'm sure this is part of what has caused my illness. The practice

you have shared is very simple and elegant (yet not easy, as I well know)

and if I do nothing else in a day but give over control that would be a real

gift, to me and from me.

 

Okay, I'm a country music junkie ... but there is a wonderful song, written

by Jimmy Buffett and Martina Mcbride on Buffett's "License to Chill" CD. It's

called "Trip Around the Sun."

Here are the words relevant to the issue:

Verse 2

Every day's a revolution

Pull it together and it comes undone

Just one more candle and a trip around the sun

 

Chorus

It's just hanging on while this old world keeps spinning

And it's good to know it's out of my control

If there's one thing that I've learned from all this living

Is that it wouldn't change a thing if I let go.

 

Blessings all ~ Linda

 

Supriti wrote:

 

>> My need for control was set up from being in an out of control family

situation and this

>> situation no longer exists. I wake up every morning and say first thing

to Amma's picture >> "thy will not mine be done today." Then I listen for

the rest of the day and if things

>> change and I do not accomplish one thing and something else comes for me

to do, I

>> accept that what is supposed to happen is going to happen. It is a big

leap of faith for me >> every morning - and doing this one thing makes my

whole day much easier because I am >> not alone and trying to wreste control

from

things I have no control over...