Just Thoughts
Sitting here in a coffee saloon in St. Augustine, Florida on a Sunday morning. Muffin consumed and second cup of coffee purchased. Obligatory electronics performed and consumed. Now just staring at the wall and other coffee consumers in and out for the morning.
Nothing brilliant — just thoughts that wander across my weak brain for those faithful two readers.
The boat we ride in (our life) floats down the River of Life. It cannot go back up stream and it will not hurry forward any faster than the rate at which the current flows. To the END where we ALL WILL go.
But we can determine whether we float along in the stream or bounce off of the banks — pelter-melter. And we can keep the boat upright and not float down stream with the boat over turned.
We decide.
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood/ And sorry I was that I could not travel both.
I took the road least travelled.”
When we choose one road, and later may feel that was the wrong choice, don’t forget that you made the choice. You cannot tell how joyful or successful the other choice might have been. Sometimes, after a long way down the road, we fantasize that the other choice would have been better.
But we don’t know that! It might have been worse.
All that we know is that YOU/We made the decision and experienced the path — triumph and failure — that we walked.
The order of the Universe
The meaning of the Universe
The purpose of the Universe
Is obtained merely by the view or belief that we choose. We choose the explanation.
AND the explanation appears to us.
Once the choice has been made, our lives have meaning and purpose
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For many the choice — is simply the patterns and beliefs of their parents/society/environment that is foisted upon them. The hold and carry this pattern without thought or reflection.
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It is a privilege and honor for those few individuals who made the courageous and difficult decision to enter that dark abyss and examine their basic beliefs. Choose which make sense for them. Discard those foolish and useless ideas from their past. And gather and nurture those which are TRUE for THEM.
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