Choices ~

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There’s something that I’ve learned.

This might sound simplistic, and self evident, however it’s hit me just now with a profound wallop.

Life is full of choices.
And there are only two choices you can make:

You can choose to act out of love.
Or you can choose to act out of fear.

Most of us, most of the time, choose to act out of fear.
Usually, it’s fear of loss, or fear of lack.

And so we live according to the choices we make.
We live in fear.

Next time you’re faced with a choice, ask yourself:
Am I making this choice out of fear? 

To do this, you have to be aware.
You have to be awake.

Most of us aren’t.

So the first step to making choices out of love is to wake up.

How do you wake up?

Become mindful.
Pay attention.
Be here now.

Make choices consciously, with awareness, and learn to ask yourself:
Am I making this choice out of fear? 

If so, then ask yourself:

Is this really what I want?
Or do I want to trust… 

in university church

7 thoughts on “Choices ~”

  1. There are very few moments in life when it is better to act out of fear : in front of a grizzly , dropped bears,or on the edge of a cliff.Only ;).
    Thanks Bill for this great reminder.It is never to late.

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    • Thanks Marie. In the instance of a grizzly bear, you don’t actually choose to respond, to be fearful – it happens instinctively, which is different from choosing to be afraid. Same with being in the edge of a cliff. This is an innate survival mechanism. Our body kicks into an instinctive fight or flight reaction, to protect ourselves, and more largely, the species.

      You can though, in the case of a bear for instance, choose love as a response, overcoming your instinctive fear – and here are many documented incidents of holy men and sadhus choosing to show compassion and love to a dangerous animal, a tiger or a cobra in the Indian jungles, and that dangerous animal then retreating, and posing no further threat.

      It’s about raising your vibrational levels so that you can communicate with that creature of beast, and let them know you pose no great to them.

      Bill

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  2. Bill,
    Wonderful post!
    We should all learn to make our choices out of love and trust. Far too many times our choices are for selfish reasons only.
    Thank you for the gentle reminder.
    Arlène

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  4. And there are only two choices you can make:

    You can choose to act out of love.
    Or you can choose to act out of fear.

    It’s a false statement.

    Lack of fear doesn’t signify presence of love, any more than lack of love is fear.

    We do not exist inside Yoda’s Jedi dichotomy, even though it’s hardly a false one.

    Our choices often are motivated by neither love nor fear, quite apart from the fact that our world-views aren’t necessarily defined by our emotions in the first place.

    Those who act from routine, or corporal necessity, or intellectual requirement are not necessarily acting on the basis of those emotions.

    Psychological reality does not always obey the eros/thanatos dichotomy …

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