Jim Hightower Quotes

When the universe throws something your way, or things happen, I'm one of those people that goes with it, and I don't fight it.

When I try to go with what's happening and embrace that as much as I can, it seems to be a much smoother journey for me.

Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That's what surfers do - take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we've become incredibly adept technically. We've treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

Surrender to the flow.

You can't ever force anything, and you have to deal with what comes to you as it comes.

Surrender is working with what happens.

Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.

Study water. Try to grab a hold of water, and it will always elude you. You just have to let yourself be in it. It's soft, and it overcomes anything that's hard. Put the hardest substance - say, titanium - out there, and let water flow over it. Eventually, patiently, peacefully, the water will just wear it away. Also, water will enter anywhere - through any opening at all. So, let yourself be like that. God is in nature, everywhere and always. And we have so much to learn.

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way.

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.

One has only to follow events, and you will be all right. The surest way is to take whatever comes as it comes.

Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.

Just true to form with life sometimes - what you're trying to do doesn't necessarily work out, but what ends up happening can be a lot better. I just relax and say whatever is going to happen - happens.

You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

I normally go with the flow.

A great life is to be able to ebb and flow.

Stand not against the stream.

The [Russian] Communist Party decided that policy. As a good communist, I have to go along.

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

If the modes are changing, one goes along with it, I guess.

Life? You can't manipulate it or bend it to your will. You have no choice but to roll with it.