The Question
We spend our lives trying to manage everything — time, people, outcomes, even fate.
Yet the more we tighten our grip, the more life slips through our fingers.
Why do we chase control, knowing it only breeds exhaustion?
The Understanding
Control is the mind’s illusion of safety. It convinces us that order equals peace — but peace has never been born from control. It comes from alignment.
We try to command the external because we have not yet mastered the internal.
Nothing truly belongs to us — not time, not outcomes, not even the body that carries us.
The harder we cling, the more we suffer the friction of reality refusing to obey.
The Lesson
Freedom begins when control ends.
You cannot hold the river and still expect it to flow.
The Monarch learns to direct energy, not dictate results — to act with clarity, release attachment, and trust that what aligns will remain.
Control seeks possession; discipline seeks harmony. The former imprisons. The latter liberates.
The Decree
To master control, one must first stop needing it.
What is meant for you cannot be managed — only met.
