Choice

The fable reads:

In India, the Spirit of the Plague passed an old man sitting under a tree.    

Old Man: Where are you going?
Spirit: To Benares, to kill one hundred people.


Later, the old man heard that in Benares ten thousand had died. Then the Spirit of the Plague passed again on its return journey.


Old Man: You lied. You said you would kill one hundred.
Spirit: I killed one hundred. FEAR killed the rest.

All of humankind has an incredible power at their disposal, it’s called choice.
We choose whether we feel worthy or unworthy. We choose whether we will have a good time or whether we will be miserable. We choose whether we will walk the road of victim or skip down the road of unending power. We choose whether we will approach new adventures with an expectancy of good or whether we approach the continuing saga called the unknown with fear and trepidation.

We choose.

Isn’t that incredible?

Life becomes liberated when we gain the awareness that no-thing outside of us can choose our responses or make us feel anything we don’t choose for ourselves.
Examine your choices. Entertain the simple yet profound truth that if you do not like or are in fear of something, you can avoid the plague of misery and unhappiness by making a different choice on how to feel.