Synergy and Decision Making

 Synergy is better than my way or your way.  It is our way. 

Stephen Covey

Hmmm!  I have been writing, speaking and thinking a lot about surrendering.  In order to surrender and let go, we need to trust that which we are surrendering to. We do need to let go of our need to control and manipulate everything...and simply accept Life as it is so it can  just flow through us and around us. Even when we think we made a decision ...we really didn't.  There was a million little variables seen and un seen in that decision that we made...and if we have any ownership of it...it is only minimal at best. 

The data for a decision in any given situation is infinite...Alan Watts

There is something that contemporary and business minded society refers to as synergy at play in our ordinary lives. It is the coming together of forces to create a favorable outcome. Ego tells us we are responsible for every decision we make be it the so called  right one or the wrong one...but we are only a small cog in this wheel.

Decisions that turn out right have little to do with our conscious intent or control...Alan Watts

So instead of clinging to a control we really do not have...we should surrender that control to the universe which always has our back whether it seems that way or not, that is ultimately the key player in any decision we may make whether we know it or not. We can trust the universe! We can trust Life! 

If we can't surrender completely...we can at least delegate.  We can begin trusting other beings, coincidence, life and maybe God. We can give up a bit of control at a time. 

The way to become one with the universe is to trust it as another....Alan Watts

We really do not know where our decisions come from. Not knowing is actually an amazing part of this journey.  We just need to trust that Someone or Something other than the puny clump of flesh your little me is in...has a huge part in making decisions that are best for all...in the long run. We are incapable then of making the wrong decsion, even if it really seems like we goofed up,  if we act on the principle that we have the backing of the universe.

 We might never be able to fully understand or conceptualize the forces synergizing with us to attain the best results.  It really doesn't matter. We are not meant to know it all, or decide it all. We are just meant to flow with the course of nature, one act of faith at a time. 

All is well. 

Sorry...listened to so many Alan Watts video lectures today that I am not sure where each quote came from.