We are making choices all the time. Our choices influence not just what can happen today but also what may be possible tomorrow. To own that we are choosers is a big responsibility. Those who are fearful of making choices and so do not make them are nevertheless in a choosing process. Not making a choice is a choice!
Choice by choice we cannot skip creating our lives even if it is just in reaction instead of action. Listening deeply to our inner sense of things despite whatever outer pressures we have is a holly task and a privilege. It is out of such consideration that choices for the highest good are likely to come.
Phrases posted on Facebook, October 2015
We’re born. We came out bawling with our first breath, no choice about our gender or our DNA. There’s a big difference between being the one we are and choosing to be the one we were given to be. Please try for one full day to choose to be the latter as many times as you can. Then at the end of the day write yourself a love letter and see how you feel.
Any one trying what was suggested in the last post will no doubt have had inkling that “the one we were given to be” has no limiting definitions but is in essence a pure stream and unfolding expression of the Source
Most likely we all have what we believe to be unlovable parts. They are our “out-siders”. Could we choose to pause a second when such a part shows up and say, YOU, TOO without requiring it to be different in that moment? Though that may seem like a tiny intervention it is nevertheless choosing an inner cease-fire. Perhaps negotiations for inner peace can then ensue. We are our own best enemy. We can choose to be our own best friend as well.
Choosing inclusiveness creates spaciousness. It’s like having a deep closet with several closet poles. As we allow inclusivity, the “suits” (the roles and attitudes) we wear can change. There are the ones we chose to wear daily or weekly. And there are the ones that go into the back for occasional wear. When our closet is really spacious, our old worn out suits (even the unconscious ones) go into the very back and eventually choose on their own to be donated to good will.
It is not surprising that when we choose inclusivity for ourselves we are able to extend it to others. I call it, THAT, TOO practice – not exactly genuine hospitality but a willingness for what is foreign and different to pass over our borders without being detained or hurt. It is a humane choice to understand that we are all refugees at some level and need a chance for new beginnings.
So close that you do not sense it, there is a quiet invitation that beckons. Choose to listen. Our deepest longings are often whispers.
When heart-tired, estranged and discouraged, can we first choose to own the truth of our condition? Then let us choose to wrap soul and body in genuine tenderness.
We will all have times when it appears that all the choices available to us do not adequately solve the situations we find ourselves in. Isn’t it then to choose a way that serves life the most and allows our hearts to keep open?
We live in a doing culture that does not support simple rest and quiet as being valuable in comparison to accomplishment and acquisition. When we choose to create a period of simple silence it feeds our souls and our bodies. It takes self-love to do so, and it also helps balance the imbalance around us.
It is a rather amazing practice to choose what we have, whatever that is–dreadful, sad, or magnificent or both. If actively embraced and chosen it will take us to the shimmering nerve of life where perceptions of good and bad disappear.
In every life there are moments when reciprocity is overlooked and leads to pain. We are merely human and so have been, and will be, both receivers and givers of such unconsciousness. But we can choose to let go of whatever holds us in regret or in grievance. If we are not yet able to do so we can choose to intend to do so in time.
What does a choice- less choice, but the acceptance of doing what our natures bid us to do from our souls’ deep know?
It’s good to have a little stone in your pocket with words you attach to it like these – be still, let go, peace, love – in other words, your favorites. Then when overwhelming moments come and it is hard to choose something other than reactivity we can take hold of our stone and its meaning as an anchor in the storm.
Whenever we are confused about a decision it is never wrong to ask what would serve Life the most. When we make that choice we ultimately choose what is right for everyone.
Perhaps the angel of new insights knocked on the door yesterday. Today, can we chose to open the heart’s door even if only a crack and so let fresh air embrace us? Who knows what wisdom will find a way to slip in.
