If you feel yourself commanded by people and events, set yourself at ease. Remember the one item that is always subject to your possible control — your own clarified mind. Your mind can control everything because of its supreme power to react correctly to everything. In the Outer World people may seem to exert command over you, as with unjust taxes, but no one can control your mental reactions to outer events. Nothing in the Outer World can touch a man living fully from his Inner World.

–Vernon Howard  

The circumstances in our lives are determined by our reactions to them, and as Shakespeare pointed out, “There’s nothing good nor bad but thinking makes it so.” When we consciously decide that we will not label life — that whatever is happening is neither good nor bad, but simply is — then any and every situation immediately loses its power to harm. By neutralizing the event we essentially cause the storm clouds to dissipate and in this seamless and simple way claim victory.

May you always be aware that your life is yours to control.

Love 

Bill Martuge