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JUNE 2013
PRABUDDHA JIVAN
31
Thus Spake Choice :
How many of us face the same dilemma when faced that, in the future, she might regret the choices she with the uphill task to choose? When you are just so made now. She wanted to follow all possible paths and unsure. Its not that one is always greedy and we need so ended up following none. She feared pain, loss, and the best of both; often we just simply are not able to or separation. These things were inevitable on the path not willing to take sides.
to love, and the only way of avoiding them was by When I look back at my life, my toughest moments have deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, not been the roads I have finally taken, the decisions you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your that I have finally made, the paths that I have tread but own eyes not to see the bad things in life." the time before that. The crossroads.
Philosopher Aristotle emphasizes on choice. He saysTo do or not to do: To go or not to go: To do this or that. "Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result To choose this or to choose that' To be or not to be.
of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; People around me I feel are gifted with 'clarity' which
it represents the wise choice of many alternatives -
choice, not chance, determines your destiny." has always been elusive to me. It is not simple for me since. I cannot find enough good to do something or Writer Scott Peck talks about choices in love- 'Love is enough bad to not to do something.
the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing I never chose a profession, I never rejected a
one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as
love does. Love is an act of will - namely, both an profession- whatever came my way, I took it.
intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We Essentially, all the places where I could , I shunned
do not have to love. We choose to love. choice. Choice to me represented regret, a
And thus, even though a little late in the day, I call to responsibility too big to take.
people like me to make choices. Choice determines It reflected on me. It made me indecisive, always on
character, dont worry if the choices are good or bad the periphery - never completely into anything or anyone
because if you choose, you will have the strength to and it allowed me to remain free of the consequences
change, but if you dont choose - you miss out on the of making a choice.
completeness of your own being. Let us find out by examining what the more sorted ones
Today; I am choosing not to shun choice anymore, to have to say about Choice.
see a choice right in the eye and to fight the permanent Acclaimed author Paulo Coelho's 'Brida' lived a life battle of the if and or. bereft of love because she could not choose to trust
RESHMA JAIN herself to love completely
The Narrators "Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others.
Mobile: 9820427444 She had a whole life to live, and she was always thinking
CONTRADICTION Do not believe what you have heard. Do not believe in Man and his deed are two distinct things. It is quite tradition becauase it is handed down many proper to resist and attack a system but to resist generations. Do not believe in anything that has been and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and spoken many times. Do not believe because the written attacking oneself. For we are all tarred with the same statements come from old sages. Do not believe in brush and are children of one and the same Creator, cojecture. Do not believe in authority or teachers or and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. elders. But after careful observation and analysis, when to slight a single human being is to slight those it agrees with reason and will benefit one and all, then divine powers and thus to harm not only that being accept it and live by it.
but with him the whole world. O Lord Buddha
Mahatma Gandhi
