After naming my blog as “importanceofchoices” I am now asking myself what is Choice? It might sound stupid and funny but those who understood where I am going will know I am talking sense (sometimes its good to talk non sense also J). Choice literally means option, selection, alternative, pick and frankly saying coz of literal meaning I named my blog as “importanceofchoices” (its true that I was inspired by Richard Bach’s ‘One’ but I don’t want to give him full credit for my thoughts). I realize that I should look for deeper meaning of Choice. What is it exactly? Is it the most important ingredient in life’s recipe (I can think of comparing my thoughts with recipe coz unfortunately I am cooking everyday and I really pity people who have to eat food cooked by me ;-)) Is choice ONLY going to decide my destiny? And more important question is does destiny exist? (I am asking this question in this post coz I strongly feel that it will help me to understand choice better)So let me try to see if I can answer my question about Destiny and whether I can correlate them (at least I can try).
To be honest I don’t believe in Destiny, luck, fate, whatever you call it. I find it just an excuse made by people who does not achieve their dreams. No one’s fate is pre decided. Everyone has to search their own path. I can see glass half filled or half empty choice is up to me. What I choose to see or go is completely up to me (See I told you if we talk about Destiny we will end up at CHOICE but I never thought it will be so soon) I know for sure that I am going to design my destiny. I and only I will know where I will be after couple of years. There is nothing called luck, kismet. What really exist are WORK, ABILITY and YES CHOICE. By choosing certain path I will reach some destination and how that destination will look is decided by what I do along the path. Lets say I started walking on my chosen path (of beautiful life with my beloved) with my beloved one (signifies non materialistic thing). Along the path I become greedy and I kill my beloved one so I can get all its belongings (signifies materialistic thing). When I reach my destination I realize it’s not the way I thought it will be there is something missing. What I don’t realize is I have changed my chosen path by my own deed. It would be unfair to say that only choice will decide what future will be like. In reality it is the combination of CHOICE and ACT which plays the trick. What PATH I choose and what I DO on my chosen path are very important to achieve my dreams.
I reached the end of tunnel and my light is coming from the thought that THERE IS NO DESTINY AND MOST IMPORTANT INGRIDENT OF LIFE ARE CHOICES AND ACT
Good Job Purnashilpa!!! (It is always advisable to praise yourself once. Let me tell you one secret come near actually no one praises me and to fill that space in my life I have to praise myself.)
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Hey....
Always have warm wishes...!!
What a great meaning and feeling in your name ...."Purnashilpa".....have.......Are you aware that?.....
I here for by searching the blogs...Importance of choices..... I should appreciate your thinking......I respect and enjoy the inner and deep thinking of people.
I have a question to you....What you choose, is choose by you?......Is really in your hand?.....Or... it is by the situation..........Or.... The nature didn't give you best...?
I don't want the answer of following questions.........
What is your answer when your teacher asks you at your school...."What you want to become?".....Did you?
Before 12th exam results Where you want to take the admission?....n...What happens after results?
In your college life you might have someone in your life.........Are you married with him....(Very sorry I hope It not be not panic..!!)
I don't want the answer of these questions....B'Coz.....I know what are.....
The nature, I said him god......My friend.....He Puts every best in front of you......I know in the little mind of school girl, he gave the best thought what want to become....
I known, my friend gives the way where to go......after 12ths
I know there is a dream one ......at college.
........I known your first choice....ask the yourself......You choose them or you change them?..........................Importance of choices.
Much more is in your hand......not everything..............(My friend work for remaining).
………………..It has nothing to do with what you are doing but with what mind you are doing it. With the same mind nothing will satisfy you. You can go on changing but you remain the same. You only change the job but not your approach, your attitude, not your consciousness. Nothing is going to satisfy you.
If you change your consciousness then anything can satisfy you, then everything can satisfy. So you have to change the whole gestalt of your thinking. Don't think in terms that "What is a choice? This choice is not good, that's why I am not satisfied." No, you don't know how to remain contented, how to enjoy life with all its limitations, how to enter into each situation with awareness, love, blissfulness. Then all the choices are almost the same. What you do does not matter; what you are matters.
………………So now let this be your search. Do whatsoever you are doing but do it more lovingly, more playfully. You will be surprised: things that looked heavy are no more heavy and things that looked a drain are no more so. The whole burden will disappear......................................................... but not through the old way.
And this is what Life is all about: changing the emphasis from the outer to the inner, changing the emphasis from the content to consciousness, changing the emphasis from the world to the self.
………………………….Don't be worried. In choices there always have something in common.
Enjoy it, nothing is wrong in it. Even choice has a beauty of its own, it has a depth. In fact it is far more important than your so called Choice, because that is very shallow. Your Choice is shallow, your decision is deep. It touches your very core. So ………………………………………………………………don't be worried; let it happen, watch it.
………………….It is so foolish, stupid, to ask , "Which is the best choice?" And that's what the ego is continuously doing: directly, indirectly, it is waiting for others to say something good, something nice about you. And when they want to manipulate you, they say things nice to you. But because they have to say nice things to you, sooner or later they will take revenge and they will say bitter things about you, maybe behind your back. You can be absolutely certain about it: if one choice is something good to you, you can be certain that It will have to say something wrong in it, …………………………………………………………………….because nature keeps a balance.
Then the whole game looks so nonsensical. And how can you say anything about your choice? -- they don't know future! You yourself don't know the future of the decision.....you choice!!...Does you?
Now let me explain...................
The function of the Master is to take all knowledge away from you. The real Master does not impart knowledge; on the contrary, he takes it away. He destroys all knowledge, he is very hard on knowledge. Slowly slowly he creates an empty space in you. When the disciple can say totally, "I don't know," he has come to the door of the temple. The feeling that "I don't know, is the most sacred feeling in the world. Socrates says, know only one thing, that I don't know anything." Socrates is one of the wisest men of the world. But wisdom is not knowledge, wisdom consists of innocence. Knowledge is Cunning; it is never innocent. So from this very moment start dropping knowledge and start functioning from the state of not-knowing. This is the beginning of a great inner revolution. Soon one becomes innocent, and when the heart is innocent, the world is sacred.
When your mind is full of knowledge there is no God; then only matter exists. When your heart is dancing with innocence there is no matter; then only God exists.
If a person asks how to trust, how to love, he is simply showing that he exists in the head -- the head always asks "how". The heart never asks how.
God is not known through logic, God is known through the eyes of love. God is not a conclusion of great argument, it is an insight. It is not the end product of ……………….thinking……………………………………………………. but an experience of feeling.
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