Monday, August 12, 2013

Choice

Dr Tae Yun Kim is a martial artist, an author, a speaker and much more. Here is an excerpt from her book, The Silent Master.

CHOICE
At the start of your journey to Self Discovery, you want to shake hands with your power of choice and love, and protect it forever. The person you are today is based on how you've chosen in the past to respond to your environment, to the people you've known, and to your own thoughts and feelings. The person you will be tomorrow is based on the choices you make regarding these same things right now. As long as you remain aware that your development depends on choices you make right now, you stay in the driver's seat to invite change and growth. But as long as you regard your present self as “just the way you are," as some sort of reality set in cement, you shut down the Self Discovery process.

The fact is, you are as open as your choices are. You can choose to open and grow, you can choose one new goal after another, you can choose to abandon one way of life for another, you can choose to devote yourself to any reasonable pursuit. Or, you can choose to say "I can't." Your consciousness is standing behind your choices with the creative force to drive it into form.

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