Submission to the Various Forces at Work

There are times where we are overcome by powerful forces from within... a part of us must submit and give permission for the forces to exert their power upon us, but at the same time for the sake of balance, we must submit to other forces at work, especially those involving the will and requests of others. There exists the dynamic of balancing desires and figuring out as diplomatically as possible how to get the needs related to those desires met... This is what it's like to be a social being... This is what it's like to be a human being, responding to others and the outer world, while responding to our own inner desires... The balancing of conscious will with unconscious will.