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You As Decision-Maker
Don’t obsess over right and wrong decisions. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience.
If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. This isn’t a correct assumption because the universe is flexible- it adapts to every decision you make. Right and wrong are only mental constructs.
Go beyond risks. You can go beyond risks by knowing that there is infinite intelligence at work in the hidden dimension of your life. At the level of this intelligence your choices are always supported. The point of looking at risks would be to see if your course of action is reasonable. People who can assess their choices at the deeper level of awareness are aligning themselves with infinite intelligence, and thus they have a greater chance for success than does someone who crunches the numbers.
It is hard to let go when you don’t know if you have made the right choice in the first place. Doubt lingers and ties us to the past. It is important not to make critical decisions when you are in doubt.
The universe supports actions once they are begun, which is the same as saying that once you take a direction, you are setting a mechanism in motion that is very hard to reverse. When you are in doubt, however, you put the universe on hold for a while. It favors no particular direction.
Keep in mind that you are the choice-maker, which means that who you are is far more than any single choice you have ever made or ever will make.
Adapted from The Book of Secrets, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2004).
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add your comment »Definitely find this pertinent to my place of mental, spiritual and emotional being right now. However, about the killing someone and right and wrong-well, it's all perception. Someone might not agree with killing, EVER, even in self defense, while I would do whatever it took to stop the one trying to kill me or my loved ones, even if it ended in their death. Is either position wrong? It's all a matter of choice and what you choose to believe. Life isn't always so black and white as "right" and "wrong", "good or evil"-for a hypothetical for instance, in the case of a police officer killing someone who was going to kill someone else, an evil( a death) is balanced by the good, which is the fact that the death of the would be killer prevented the death of someone else-and maybe more...Now what if the "victim" was a child molester - You see? Either way, that act changes many, many possibilities that could have been, but now will never be-both good and bad...and many many lives were changed-in more ways than we could see, such as the lives of those that, had the killer lived, would have been taken and the families of those who would have been killed by the theoretical individual in question. Make sense?
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I have "The Book of Secrets" and imo it's a very important book with far reaching concepts. I admire Deepak Chopra's way of thinking but in this regard, the concepts of right and wrong, I have to disagree with him. His theory seems flawed. Is killing just a 'bad choice'? No, basically it's wrong - not because we agree but because we just know it. Same with charity, love. Is it just a 'good choice'? No - it's a right choice. We can't live in a chaotic world where there is not right and wrong - just narrowing it down to 'choices' is oversimplifying the main question of life. The question is why are we here - and it's not so easy as just making 'choices' imo. With the theory of choices we can justify anything we do, so the theory is flawed.
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There are no right or wrong decisions; only choice. What creates problems for us is when we do not take responsibility for those choices, and place blame elsewhere. Part of making favorable choices is being mindful. Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we have learned in our spiritual practice. Mindfulness is paying attention to what is going on. Just look at beauty. Not just the beauty of things you see with your eyes, but beautiful feelings, beautiful awareness. There is no such thing as reality. Reality is what you make it. See your life as not just your life but as eternity. Be so completely integrated in the experience of perception that there's no sense of a perceiver but just the fluid moment of ecstasy that is reality unfolding itself to itself.
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To Chris Sanders, if "Chopra's opinion is nothing more than 'feel-good' twaddle." to you then why are you wasting your precious time reading and replying here??? Go to some other site that clicks with your opinion!
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Thank you for your post! It’s very interesting indeed! I never south that the decisions I make, aren’t right or wrong. It’s only choice, as any others!
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Not even Big Wheels and politicians are able to constantly make the right decisions. What is right for one party generally is wrong for the opponent. Win-win decisions are the only correct ones.
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Chopra's opinion is nothing more than 'feel-good' twaddle. Basing important decisions derived from emotion is a pre-failed idiotology and demonstratively stupid.
Critical decisions are based on cold, hard logic and well researched facts with the foundational understanding and direction of virtue (right from wrong). Feelings play little or no part unless you're determined to snatch defeat from certain success.
There ARE consequences. You will always pay a price for making the wrong decision and there is often a price to pay for making the right decision, however, if your sense of virtue is fully satisfied you can live with it.
This is called the human condition and it makes us who we are. The poor or virtueless choices of the past are to be learned and never repeated, not left up to the whims of some fanciful crap that the universe is "neutral".
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I have always been a spiritual person and followed my heart. Yet, I once made a decision that after all was said and done, I perceived to be wrong, which has haunted me to this day. This article has cleared it up and given me a sense of peace.
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Simple. No preconcieved judgements. I like this. I believe I have always believed this to be true!
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The Universe is apathetic.
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