How many times have you heard "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink."? Even if we call the horse "stupid" or worse, the horse will drink ONLY if he wants to.
We may come to understand that the horse isn't thirsty, and that we cannot stop the rain. There are actually a great many things that we learn to accept just as they are, but then there are all those other things we attempt to control over and over and over.
Here is a wonderful quote from Abraham-Hicks:
"There is something so important for you to understand. And that is, you
cannot control the behaviors of others, not even one other. And if you are
trying to be a deliberate creator, by controlling the details of your life
experience, you're pretty much going out of your mind, aren't you?
Because they will not behave, they will not behave, they will not behave,
they will not behave, they will not behave. Because they were not born to
serve you. They were not born to serve you --now we know that's shocking...."
Our peace and happiness is in direct proportion to how much we give up attempts to control people and situations outside our control.
