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How do you make decisions?
Posted on Nov 14th, 2008
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celebriticat
celebriticat
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for November 14, 2008:
The thing that has helped me most in making decisions is realizing that I cannot make a mistake. Whatever I decide, the outcome will hold gifts for me in the form of life lessons.
Nothing can go wrong. Nothing has ever gone wrong. Everything that occurs in our life has purpose. Or so it seems to me. What do I know?
Nothing can go wrong. Nothing has ever gone wrong. Everything that occurs in our life has purpose. Or so it seems to me. What do I know?
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You know that “everything that occurs in our life has a purpose.” I agree with that statement even if the purpose is for it own sake.
I agree that no choice can go FAR wrong for a healthy person: Meaning that one Path is very much like another. I'm pretty sure that all of my choices that flow from right intent will come out in some place beneficial to myself and Others, but I'm not sure there is a reason for everything, or that I need one.
I don't think reason answers everything, just as I do not believe that everything could be answered by emotional, or faith-based solutions.
I believe that as healthy human beings WE have a nice balance of intuition, emotion, logic, reason, and physical senses to be able to live and to love.
I kinda like it that Way.
Good points, all. I experienced your words as refreshing and stimulating.
Life is paradoxical. There is deliberateness, and seeming randomness. Our Higher Self guides us, and yet we have free will.
I just believe that beneath the apparent chaos, there is purpose in everything.
But that's just my view, not necessarily the Truth or even the Way. I feel that using “the” before Truth or Way is arrogant and egoistical, anyway, and I try not to go there.
That's why I say, What do I know?
Nice entry. I like the line, “The outcome will hold gifts for me in the form of life lessons” That's a great way to look at it.
Nothing can go wrong. – > I get that — the second a choice it made it changes everything and it always goes back to your core beliefs as a compass. It only changes if you want it to…
“But that's just my view, not necessarily the Truth or even the Way. I feel that using “the” before Truth or Way is arrogant and egoistical, anyway, and I try not to go there.
That's why I say, What do I know?”
I completely agree. I also know that I don't know very much; I actually kind of like not knowing very much today. It sorta keeps the clutter to a minimum.
Yeah, I used to be the original “My-way-or-the-highway” guy, but now those things I held so rigidly are not so important. I'm not egotistical enough to think that I have THE right Way anymore, but I am still egotistical enough to think that I have MY Way – well, that's what I get for thinking.
There is freedom in not knowing.
Gone is the pressure to be “right”.
I'm loving it!
Hello celebriticat, Well said, sometimes a mistake is not a mistake anymore then is perfect… perfection.
Thanks