Coffee and Philosophy: Control

Today's mug is brought to us by the illusion of control.

The concept of control is interesting and the source of many issues in the world. The ego pushes humanity to understand and quantify and apply logic and reason to everything. The problem is that some things do not fall within these metrics and even if they do, we ultimately can never control them entirely. There are always more variables and greater complexities to our reality and the illusion of control is actually kind of ironic. We can measure things like distance and mass and develop expectations and assumptions about the natural order of things, but we really don't control anything other than our own minds and self awareness. If we embrace change and flow in an accepting state there is much less resistance between the self and reality. On the other hand we can try to force reality to be what we want it to be and that in itself can be proven time and time again to be beyond our comprehension. We can build the most complex and marvelous fabrications our minds can imagine, but we can't stop someone else or an act of nature from destroying it or changing it. In the end what do we really control other than our acceptance of reality and our own ability to embrace it and adapt to it and be one with it? Namaste.