So true!! The same has been said in the Bhagavad Gita, chapter 2 verse 47. Which says tha you have a right to your prescribed duty, but never to its fruits, nor should you be the cause of results or attached to inaction
The sneaky part is how easily “doing everything I can” turns into trying to control everything anyway. We rehearse, optimize, prepare, check, check again, and call it responsibility when half the time it’s anxiety wearing a clipboard. At some point the arrow has to leave the string. Otherwise you’re not practicing excellence. You’re just refusing to let reality have a vote.
Gripping careers, relationships, the version of ourselves we worked so hard to become, as though force alone could make any of it stay.
Letting go is not apathy. It is not the resignation of someone who has stopped caring or the indifference of someone who never did. It is the decision to care deeply about what you are doing without holding your happiness hostage to how it turns out.
I really love the Stoics and I think that early Christians often referred to them and tried to find areas of common ground in their philosophy. Veritas, is that your real last name? I wish you all the best with this new online endeavor I think it is definitely a worthy one. I’m sure you have heard of the Serenity prayer, that is one many Christians pray and sounds like it is similar to some of Stoicism’s basic tenets. The struggle with our own passions and desires and in dosing our mind and heart in our own actions and what we can control is the foundation the minimum actually of what Christians aspire to. Because the “ world” does not determine, in our understanding of humanity, life, and history, the actual course the arrow takes. It is not fate or chance or mathematical probability that decides the outcome of any given action instead it is God Himself because, and I do think the Ancient Greeks believed this too only in their religion is was the various and sundry gods, demigods etc etc who decided which way the winds blew etc etc., true reality is lived in the Eternal dimension and our present life here on Earth is on the temporal plane.
So true!! The same has been said in the Bhagavad Gita, chapter 2 verse 47. Which says tha you have a right to your prescribed duty, but never to its fruits, nor should you be the cause of results or attached to inaction
I’ve mentored new nurses for two decades.
I teach them to work like hell. Put 100% into the interdisciplinary patient care plan.
Remember at the end of the day to divorce yourself from the outcome.
I've recently learned to embrace the element of luck in life or probability. We can only do our best. The rest is up to the rest. 🧡
The rest is up to the rest.
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The sneaky part is how easily “doing everything I can” turns into trying to control everything anyway. We rehearse, optimize, prepare, check, check again, and call it responsibility when half the time it’s anxiety wearing a clipboard. At some point the arrow has to leave the string. Otherwise you’re not practicing excellence. You’re just refusing to let reality have a vote.
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Gripping careers, relationships, the version of ourselves we worked so hard to become, as though force alone could make any of it stay.
Letting go is not apathy. It is not the resignation of someone who has stopped caring or the indifference of someone who never did. It is the decision to care deeply about what you are doing without holding your happiness hostage to how it turns out.
I really love the Stoics and I think that early Christians often referred to them and tried to find areas of common ground in their philosophy. Veritas, is that your real last name? I wish you all the best with this new online endeavor I think it is definitely a worthy one. I’m sure you have heard of the Serenity prayer, that is one many Christians pray and sounds like it is similar to some of Stoicism’s basic tenets. The struggle with our own passions and desires and in dosing our mind and heart in our own actions and what we can control is the foundation the minimum actually of what Christians aspire to. Because the “ world” does not determine, in our understanding of humanity, life, and history, the actual course the arrow takes. It is not fate or chance or mathematical probability that decides the outcome of any given action instead it is God Himself because, and I do think the Ancient Greeks believed this too only in their religion is was the various and sundry gods, demigods etc etc who decided which way the winds blew etc etc., true reality is lived in the Eternal dimension and our present life here on Earth is on the temporal plane.
Ya’ gotta care, but not too much. True in negotiations and true in life.