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Choice or Reaction?

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Making choices is a sign that a person has become truly human. Choices come from clarity of 'sight', and clarity from freedom from desires which force people to react.

Involvement with self is usually the cause of reaction, the opposite of choice. Self, as an artificially created 'identity', generated from thoughts, feelings, beliefs, etc. keeps the person absorbed with attempts to satisfy a never ending list of wants.

It's by having 'space' to see clearly (not controlled by desires), that we can discover our true nature (within Reality, not just our views of it) and make CHOICES.

It's easy to recognize when self has taken control of 'being' (which is the real person.) Motives for action (thought, and speech) will be self focused, attempts to fill desires for the 'creature'. The more one watches motives, the more clearly they will be seen. Subtle ones, which were completely invisible at one time, become glaringly obvious. As self motives are seen and watched (not obeyed) the true being is recognized and 'love' (unconditional), which has no conditional payoff becomes the directive (or is it simply the nature of being to express it)?

Matthew

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