A Quote by Caroline Myss

Master your responses to external events--don't attempt to control them.

Caroline Myss

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Caroline Myss
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Born: December 2, 1952

News has a way of distancing us from events, even as it informs us about them. News articles almost always present both the event and the responses at the same time - how is President Barack Obama or Congress responding to the events? I think this reflects a deep need we have to feel that things are under control and that events are subject to our influence.

Zia Haider Rahman

It is not possible to control all external events; But, if I simply control my mind what need is there to control other things?

Shantideva

Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.

Virginia Satir

We may not be able to create or control all of the events that impact our lives but we can create and control our responses to everything that we experience.

Ilchi Lee

Many people believe that decentralization means loss of control. That's simply not true. You can improve control if you look at control as the control of events and not people. Then, the more people you have controlling events - the more people you have that care about controlling the events, the more people you have proactively working to create favorable events - the more control you have within the organization, by definition.

Wilbur L. Creech

You can get into a place in your life where you no longer are in control of events, and events are in control of you.

Holt McCallany

Events are less important than our responses to them.

John Hersey

The powers that be not only try to control events, but they try to control our memory and understanding of these events, which is part of controlling the events themselves.

Michael Parenti

Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.

Vernon Howard

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

Barbara Sher

If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to see events around you exactly as they are. The closer your mind is to reality, the better your strategies, your responses in life.

Robert Greene

To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals, however, are responsible for their own actions which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline. Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. As part of the universal city that is the universe, human beings have a duty of care to all fellow humans. The person who followed these precepts would achieve happiness.

Epictetus

There are only two possible forms of control: one internal and the other external; religious control and political control. They are of such a nature that when the religious barometer rises, the barometer of [external, i.e., political control] falls and likewise, when the religious barometer falls, the political barometer, that is political control and tyranny, rises. That is the law of humanity, a law of history. If civilized man falls into disbelief and immorality, the way is prepared for some gigantic and colossal tyrant, universal and immense.

Juan Donoso Cortes

The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external.

Martin Seligman

Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.

Deepak Chopra

The master does his job and then stops. He understands that the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events goes against the current of the Tao.

Laozi

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