guardureyes wrote on 09 Dec 2009 23:13:
Here's a quote from that page:
"In life, by doing nothing, and doing it with utter calm and serenity, you are rearranging the cosmic order. You are making a statement that there is absolutely nothing to worry about because everything is entirely in the hands of your Maker, and He certainly has prepared a parachute. And by making that statement you cause it to be true."
This is beautiful and for me, very, very scary at the same time.
Let me explain. Many of my problems come from being a control freak. As Rav S said, I am full of control, from my toes to the top of my head!
I was thinking last night about what I'm trying to do.
In order for me to be free of my Internet addiction, which I have no control of but use in order to control my feeling out of control, I have to let go of feeling in control. The 12 steps call this surrendering to HaShem. I'd rather call it letting go, and letting HaShem catch me on the way down, before I hit the ground.
I am restricting myself when I make a decision not to surf in order to gain freedom. This is the explanation how following the Torah, a set of laws actually frees us up. If we follow HaShem's laws, we break the bonds that we let the Y"H bind us with, and we become free.