What we can control

And what we can control is we can control our relationship with the world, we can control our relationship with our emotions, we can control our relationship with our thoughts, but we can't control our thoughts, and we can't control our emotions, and we can't control the external world. And if we try to control the external world, or we try to control our emotions, or we try to control our thoughts, we will suffer because we will over and over recognize that we can't. And we have this expectation that we can, and then we will beat ourselves up and punish ourselves that we aren't able to meet our own expectation.