What Choice Do We Have?

We have no choice in the time of our birth or in the gender we will be. We have no choice in what family we are born into or the color of our eyes and hair. We have no choice in what language we will speak or the traditions we will follow, or the kinds of foods we will eat. We have no choice in our name, the religion of our birth, the values we will be taught, the education we will receive. We have no choice about the amount of love or hatred our parents will have for us, the approval and disapproval we will receive from our peers, or the right or wrong thoughts, ideas or beliefs conditioned into our head.

Before the time of understanding we have no choice in our loves and hates, or the relationships we will be attracted to. We have no choice about our angers and resentments, slaveries or compulsions. All in all we have no choice in the deeply flawed, worldly imposed "sin nature" that grows in us and becomes who we "think" we are.

We can choose from a menu or from a rack of shoes but we can not change the color of a single hair, or save ourselves from error or give salvation to ourselves. We can be "born again" but we can not give this gift to ourselves. The only real, truly free-will choice that we have is to be still and know the truth of our existence, to sit quietly for our daily bread of objectivity to self and allowing the Light of Reality to expose and dissolve our worldly conditioning, setting us free, gradually, to be who we really are, or not. This is the only truly meaningful choice we will ever make.

Paradise was lost when man fell into his mind, into knowledge, into thoughts and judgments of good and bad. Paradise is found when men give up "knowledge" and return to the place outside of his thinking mind where he was on the day he was born. Except ye become as little children again, ye can not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.