These days, as citizens and as people coming from an impactful humanity, we need to be on our best behaviors. And before readers start freaking out, thinking that I am “legislating” our actions, consider this: Our external behaviors usually stem from what goes on within us mentally. If we act on impulses or fragmented thinking, our behaviors will be irregular and unpredictable. If we think more carefully and moderately, our behaviors will be more even handed and predictable. Simply stated, we can be run by our wildest thoughts, or we can choose how we will behave.
An infinite quality...
We can choose to act from anger, hatred, misunderstanding and ignorance, or we can choose to come from love, and, yes, love can be a choice. Love is not just an unbridled emotion that causes crazy-making behaviors. Love…real, healthy, meaningful…is, I believe, an infinite quality with which we come into life. We have to learn how to recognize and express it…and we can choose it in our behaviors toward others. By the way, the choice to love has nothing to do with how others are treating us, and it is not a choice made to get others on our side.
Rational, motivated desire...
The choice to love is based on rational, motivated desire to bring a healing element with us wherever we go…and there is no greater healing energy than chosen love displayed! By now, most of us know something about what love can do, and if we have grown wise enough to know that we are all in this life together, how could we ever choose to come from anything but love, no matter what!
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