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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
“In pre-Christian times, there were schools known as mystery schools or the mystery religions. The messages encoded in the scriptures and ancient archaeology came from adepts of spiritual science. The intent was to teach the initiates the deeper meaning of these myths. What became later termed as Lucifer, Satan, or the devil was representative of the ego which rivals the Lord, the representative of the self. The true self is the epicenter of a person’s entire being. It is the total sum of everything that we are. The false ego on the other hand is the idea and concept we create about ourselves in the course of our lives, which typically excludes any qualities we don’t wish to accept about ourselves. However, humanity has been endowed with the freedom to choose either to obey the true self, or to give in to the temptation of the vanity and materialism of the false ego. This is the most notable trait that separates man from animal. Our freedom of choice. The choice to follow our concepts and ideals, or our natural impulses. The choice to sustain nature, or to destroy it. This freedom of choice weighs on the fate of the entire organism that we call humanity.”
“Walking across the open country gives you two dimensions of freedom, the pleasure of that freedom compensating for the inconvenience of having to cross streams, bogs, and hedges. Choosing a lane limits you to walking in one direction, but gives you a smoother journey. Easy passage is itself a form of bondage if it means that you can no longer face a cross-country walk, but as long as you believe that you have freely chosen your lane it is a bondage that does not hurt.”
“Choice creates destiny, while simultaneously, choices are created by destiny. It is paradoxical if we merely think about it. We may comprehend it as a thought only through analogy. But it is plainly obvious when it is experienced as a feeling. The feeling (if it could speak) might say, “If I follow this course, I know how it’s going to turn out, because I have already done it… I see that I’m drawn to choose the seashore because I am already there.” In other words, the so-called conscious choice is recognized as the unconscious knowing that (in one reality) it has already been done. We simply choose that which is most familiar to us. To become fully aware of this process means that we are in a position to truly set course on a new Choice and a new Destiny.”
