Giving Up Control Quotes by Rob Bell, Pat Steir, Taya Kyle, Terence McKenna, Alice Walker and many others.
Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.
The spiritual in my art is giving up control. My paintings are based on what I can do, and what I can do is not controlled. So I give up control, and that’s the spiritual aspect of the work – taking what comes and relinquishing control. Although they look very controlled, they’re really not, because it’s all poured paint.
Giving up control and just trying to be happy at the moment has proven to be the best thing for me.
The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
