Recognize your power.

[LightAngel]

People need to recognize their own power, so they need to stop acting like passengers and start acting like contributors. Because, and this is common sense, when people see themselves as passengers, they wait, they hope, they complain, but they never take action.

When people recognize their own power, they start shaping the direction instead of being carried by it.

Nobody control you, but you!

Even if there is a hidden group of people doing their best to control everybody, then they can't unless you let them.

Awareness breaks manipulation, so always remember that nobody controls you, but you!

We really need a psychological shift that changes how people relate to their own life, and communities.

What do you think?

[midicon]

People need to recognize their own power, so they need to stop acting like passengers and start acting like contributors. Because, and this is common sense, when people see themselves as passengers, they wait, they hope, they complain, but they never take action.

When people recognize their own power, they start shaping the direction instead of being carried by it.

Nobody control you, but you!

Even if there is a hidden group of people doing their best to control everybody, then they can't unless you let them.

Awareness breaks manipulation, so always remember that nobody controls you, but you!

We really need a psychological shift that changes how people relate to their own life, and communities.

What do you think?

In what way do you exercise your power LightAngel? Is it by posting on here or are there other things that you do. I ask that as you suggest that people should take action beyond waiting or complaining.

[FlyersFan]

Nobody control you, but you!

I disagree.  

There is a lot in our lives that we can not control.   We can control how much effort we make and most of us can control what emotions we have.  We can control some things like consequences of our actions ... if we do certain stupid things we will suffer the consequences, likewise if we do good things we get the reward from that.   That kind of thing.   Most other stuff is left up to the universe.   

How healthy we are.   What family and situation we are born into.   What happens around us.   Most of what happens to us.   What other people do to us and around  us that affect us.   When we are born and usually when we die (unless suicide).   Disasters (earthquakes, hurricanes, war) and their affects.   All affect us and all are left up to the universe.   

I'd say its about 50/50 on us being in control of our lives.

[andy06shake]

People need to recognize their own power, so they need to stop acting like passengers and start acting like contributors. Because, and this is common sense, when people see themselves as passengers, they wait, they hope, they complain, but they never take action.

When people recognize their own power, they start shaping the direction instead of being carried by it.

Nobody control you, but you!

Even if there is a hidden group of people doing their best to control everybody, then they can't unless you let them.

Awareness breaks manipulation, so always remember that nobody controls you, but you!

We really need a psychological shift that changes how people relate to their own life, and communities.

What do you think?

So much of life is beyond our control aside from how we choose to react.

[FlyersFan]

So much of life is beyond our control aside from how we choose to react.

Yep.  The efforts we make and our reactions and emotions are all we really have to call our own.   And some people have mental health issues that affect their emotions so even that's taken away from a bunch of folks.  Very little is in our control.

[andy06shake]

Yep.  The efforts we make and our reactions and emotions are all we really have to call our own.   And some people have mental health issues that affect their emotions so even that's taken away from a bunch of folks.  Very little is in our control.

The problem being life causes mental health issues these days.

Which is handy.

Because to be sane in an insane world.

Is simply counterproductive. 

[FlyersFan]

Because to be sane in an insane world.

Is simply counterproductive. 

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity"

Edgar Allen Poe - 1848

[andy06shake]

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity"

Edgar Allen Poe - 1848

"Insanity in individuals is something rare — but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule." Nietzsche

I wonder what they would both make of today's world?

[midicon]

I fondly console myself that I live in an open air asylum. I don't say that with a sense that I am somehow superior to anyone else though. It is what it is.

[LightAngel]

In what way do you exercise your power LightAngel? Is it by posting on here or are there other things that you do. I ask that as you suggest that people should take action beyond waiting or complaining.

Since I am a private person then I can't tell you everything I do in real life, but I do a lot.

I don't say this to brag.

I say this because you ask, and I don't want to be impolite, and therefore I give you an answer.