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; #3: Understanding -

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

Benefit #3: A refined understanding of beliefs we hold.

We first inherit beliefs from our parents, then our immediate community. These serve us well for a while until we begin to think for ourselves about the issues at hand and learn to develop more personal points of view. We learn to make choices for ourselves.

Some of the different levels of beliefs are:

• Surface belief: every day opinions, no major issues
• Social belief: circles we tend to socialize with and with whom we share certain common beliefs / ties -dietary, spiritual, business aspects, cultural, voluntary organizations, etc.
• Core belief: deeper spirituals, fundamentals of who we are, unshakable, principles to live life by and the likes.

As we grow and expand out horizons, we encounter new, sometimes conflicting, beliefs. Various things can happen at this point: our current stand on any particular issue might be reinforced and become stronger; it can be influenced and altered, or grow into a new variation if you will; or it might be completely shattered and will have to be replaced altogether by new views we can take on suddenly or form over time.

Why do you think this or that about XYZ?…

Do you have strong opinions about certain things? Where do these opinions come from? Have you ever stopped and really explored why you think that way? Often time, opinions are adopted from parents or social circles without giving it too much thought. That’s what we grew up with, or that’s what we are regularly exposed to through our socializing, and soon these views become our own.

When we explore the deeper reasons and meaning of our belief system, we come to better understand our own values. Critical analysis of what we hold to be true need not be viewed as threatening. It can be a very enlightening process that will lead to better understanding of our self and others, as well as a more thought out, honest opinion, to say nothing about possibly new insights regarding the issues themselves.

It’s important to note that views also evolve over time as we too evolve, and just because we espoused a certain opinion in the past, it does not mean we cannot change our minds in the present and future.

Next; Benefit #4: Become Pro-Active

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