This is so powerful — when we imagine that our external situation can’t change, we are forced to finally go within and instead change ourselves and our response. I love thinking about the question of “what quality would i have to cultivate within us myself to have peace of mind if nothing external ever changed around me?”
Our answer to that can determine our next steps when we feel we are in a painful situation — we are thus empowering ourselves to “guide” our fate through guiding our own internal response to what seems to be happening outside of us.
Thank you for this great article Ben!