Life has its own rhythm. Our task is not to control it, but to engage fully with what is present.

When effort is needed, effort will appear.
When effortlessness becomes essential, it will assert itself.
You need not push life about.
Just flow with it and give yourself completely to the task of the present moment,
which is the dying now to the now. For living is dying.
Without death life cannot be.

Nisargadatta Maharaj, 20th‑century Indian teacher of nondualism