Monday, September 03, 2007

The Choice

I marvel at how easily I forget I have a choice. In everything. I have a choice in what I see, what I pay attention to, what I listen to, what I say, what I do, what I eat. I have a choice in what I think, how I react and most importantly, what my attitude is on a moment to moment basis. I have a choice to accept or reject some one else's opinion. I have a choice to see beauty or discord. I have a choice to feel heaven or hell. My life, my daily existence, is the manifestation of my collective choices.

Why do I choose too often to see discord, accept meaningless opinions and feel hell crawling two millimeters under my skin? Because I slip into the Maya, the illusion of the human world and allow myself to get hooked. Hooked into paying attention to things that lower my brain function and convince me that fear is a reality. Hooked into the insane focus of the media and the power-hungry minds that say negativity is the way of the world.

Fear is not reality and negativity is not the way of the world. It is a choice to buy into that notion, that slight-of-hand illusion, that queller of independent thinking so deadly to the regimes. It is a choice to ignore, forget and feign unawareness of the energy and reality that glues the stars together, pumps blood through my veins and causes the deep sigh of relief when chocolate melts on my tongue. It is a choice to turn away from the energy of love, the reality that remains unscathed despite the Maya, the crap, and the despair.

Love is ever present. Love is everywhere. Love is the invisible force that animates the quarks and the bozons and the building blocks of life. Love is life. If it ceased to exist, so would I. So would you. So would everyone.

Because nothing truly stands outside of love. It is only a choice, a decision of the brain, a habit that causes me to feel like I do. Today, thank God, I choose differently. Today, I make the choice to see love, to acknowledge its role in the very breath of my life, and to let it seep out of my pores as joy and laughter. Today, I make the choice to see beauty and innocence and the sterling in tin. Today, my collective choices allow heaven on earth.

3 comments:

  1. My husband tells me every morning that he's going to have a great day. this usually makes me laugh and I end up having a great day. It is amazing what a positive and effective impact this conscious act has on my life.

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  2. How strangely it is that I come across your writing at a time when I too recently have written a post on happiness. Only mine ended with a certain uncertainty...

    And as if to lead me to a solid answer..here you are..

    thank you..so beautifully said...

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  3. I believe this, and try to live my life by this...that we have a choice. This was beautifully written. You might love one of my favorite books called "The Bonds that Make Us Free" by C. Terry Warner. It is about this very thing and how to live most authentically (by loving) to enjoy harmonious relationships, and peace within oneself. Anyway, love the roadside pics too. I used to live in a place like that.

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