Tuesday, November 21, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It seems as though we struggle with two perceptions – having the life we want and getting stuck with the life we have. One feels like willful free choice, and the other feels like the obligation of misfortune. In one state of mind, you\u2019re free to choose, and everything you\u2019ve ever wanted is yours; and in the other state, it\u2019s all one, enslaving prison that results from having no freedom whatsoever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The motivators and manifesting gurus say, \u201cYou can choose anything, you\u2019re free so create the life you want.\u201d \u201cYou can do anything,\u201d they say. \u201cAll that you\u2019ve ever wanted is yours, if only you dare to dream,\u201d they say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And then the other says, \u201cShit happens, and then you die.\u201d \u201cFreewill is just an illusion,\u201d they say. \u201cIt\u2019s all just one, big happening, and you aren\u2019t in control,\u201d they say. \u201cAccept and surrender, there\u2019s nothing you can do about it,\u201d they say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So am I stuck or have I chosen this life? I suppose the answer is yes and<\/em> no. Perhaps the simplest answer is that the situation is just not that personal. The way you frame your life is not real anyway. You are not real. You cannot pin reality down conceptually. I\u2019m not going to give you the answer. Why? Your life is not a question. Your life is. Reality is. How you see it, however, is fungible. If you frame it as if your life is exactly as you want it, you become blind to the parts that are clearly unwanted. To have desire implies what\u2019s undesired. To have freewill implies no will whatsoever. If you frame it in a concept, there then becomes a front and<\/em> a back. The miracle is being able to flip the picture around. That\u2019s what\u2019s called getting the Big Picture. Do you have it yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tuesday, November 21, 2023 It seems as though we struggle with two perceptions – having the life we want and getting stuck with the life we have. One feels like willful free choice, and the other feels like the obligation of misfortune. In one state of mind, you\u2019re free to choose, and everything you\u2019ve ever […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morning-motivation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3334,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions\/3334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}