Quotes: Choice

Of the last three benefits of higher awareness talked about so far, i.e. insight, choice, and understanding, choice stands out as a permeating factor. Whenever we gain insight and understanding, whenever we take the time to listen -be it to others or our true self- new information comes about and up to now un-conceived choices appear.

True freedom is about having choices… and making them.

Read the following carefully and tune in to which resonate with you and why.

Choice

You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you will have, be, and do in the tomorrow of your life.
- Zig Ziglar

We choose our joys and sorrow long before we experience them.
- Kahlil Gibran

To make the right choice in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.
- Deepak Chopra

I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.
- Stephen Sondheim

In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, of an anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.
- Brenda Ueland

What man wants is simply independent choice. Whatever that may cost and wherever it may lead.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
- Martin Kohe

The difficulty in life is the choice.
- George Moore

No man is free who is not master of himself… Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?
- Epictetus

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Any person who recognizes this greatest power… the power to chose; begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real self confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative.
- J. Martin Kohe

It is always your next move.
- Napoleon Hill

Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.
- Gordon B. Hinckley

When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world. [The Circle is Sacred]
- Scout Cloud Lee

The way to activate the seed of your creation is be making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left if compromise.
- Robert Fritz

Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest.
- Frederick Bailes

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you’ll do it or toss is aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you’ll lead or will linger behind. Whether you’ll try for the goal that’s afar. Or just be contended to stay where you are.
- Edgar A Guest

This article is copyright 2008 Christine Pointeau and for entertainment purposes only. Christine Pointeau is the artist, author of the book series A Cappella and Stray Tales, and a personal development published author. For articles and more, go to: http://www.ChristinePointeau.com

Is Awareness Over Rated?

- A 7 Benefit Series; #2: Choice -

This is part of a 7 benefit series in the exploration of gains to be had through the development of higher awareness and consciousness.

Benefit #2: Gain new options in changing or nurturing specific traits.

In Benefit #1, we talked about building insight regarding our personality through observation and interaction with other. As these mental notes build onto themselves, we gain increasing awareness of what makes us do as we do, which brings us to Benefit #2: Choice and Responsibility.

Choice is a beautiful word, isn’t it?

Its twin is, off course, responsibility, a term not always as appreciated. Some would cry out they want choice for themselves, but when the time comes, point fingers elsewhere rather than accept the responsibility that comes with it. Unfortunately, these two go hand in hand and one cannot be without the other, and are therefore considered here as one item.

Shall we put all this knowledge to good use?

Once we get to better understand what makes us do as we do, we can consciously choose new options. If a pattern emerges through recurring situations, then in becoming conscious of that pattern, we can recognize it as it is happening, or even better, catch it before it happens, and work to gradually improve and change the behavior.

Knowing our trigger points can also go a long way towards behavior modification. For example, if I am aware and recognize that I tend to have junk food cravings at a particular time of day, I can anticipate that time and be prepared with a better option. Or if I know that certain friends have a negative influence on me, then I can choose to spend less time with them and explore new avenues with groups that display the behaviors / results that I wish to attain.

Off course, we all possess admirable qualities that we might choose to exercise more often. Think of a situation where you did something or said something that was really thoughtful and supportive when a friend needed it. Maybe there are small gestures and/or random acts of kindness that you do on a regular basis that really shows a caring aspect of you. Recognize these and give yourself credit. It’s not bragging. It’s simply acknowledging the positive facets of who you are.

Let’s re-cap:

• Knowledge and awareness give us options.
• Options give us choices.
• Choices come with responsibility.

And all three points combined empower us to change and/or nurture various aspect of our personality for the better.

We can choose to become and be the person we wish to be.

This takes time off course. We cannot expect to become an entirely new person overnight, though incremental changes implemented on a persistent basis will go a long way.

Now that’s power!

Next, Benefit #3: Understanding

This article is copyright 2008 Christine Pointeau and for entertainment purposes only. Christine Pointeau is the artist, author of the series A Cappella and Stray Tales, and a published personal development author. For articles and more, visit http://www.ChristinePointeau.com now.