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I
read this old article in Psychology Today
entitled: “Would
you rather be right or would you rather be happy”
which discusses control and how you can be a slave to this need to control
things. It hurts you as well as those around you. It also includes a citation
from The Tao Te Ching, verses
74,
which I will paraphrase here:
Being in control is like trying to
take the master craftsman’s place: You take up his tools, you’ll probably get cut.
OK.
Trying to control things is bad,
yes; and hurting others, even if unintentional, is bad, too—Of Course. But my problem, with the article at least,
is that the narrative running through the text is about a husband who wants to be right and a wife who will
not back down. He is the heavy in this situation, illustrated perfectly by
their going…
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