Making new choices – taking new actions – is hard work. It means doing something different than we have been done in the past. It’s not always doing something, often it’s not doing something – not reacting – as we’ve typically done in the past.
“The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.” ~Meister Eckhart
We become comfortable with making the same choices again and again because we know what the outcome will be. We do this even when the known outcome is not what we’d like! We live in a universe that consistently delivers based on the laws of cause and effect. If we take a new action (a cause) we’ll get a different outcome (effect) which makes us uncomfortable. We don’t know what to expect so we default to what’s known and what’s comfortable.
The primary reason we don’t take new actions is because our ego craves safety and control. Our ego also wants to tell us that we are not responsible for our situation. (Unless of course it is a good situation, then the ego tells us we created it all by ourselves!) Our ego wants us to be a victim, to blame someone else for what they did to us…and to be helpless to new action that could change our situation. We become victims to our parents, our spouse, our workplace, the church, and even to God because it’s easier than taking new action.
“If we can trust and listen to our inner divine image…our True Self…we will act from our best, largest, kindest, most inclusive self.” ~Fr. Richard Rohr
We all have free will, but we don’t like to use it because then we must take responsibility for our lives and the consequences we experience. We have been socialized to act in certain ways, to have a particular image, to conform, and to get along. But if we follow social constructs instead of living into our True Self, we remain stuck in victimhood and are unlikely to experience the abundance that comes from living into our Divine Self-Expression.
“Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” John 12: 24 NRSV
Honestly, I tell you, unless you learn to let go of your ego and your old ways of being, your situation will not change; but if you allow your ego to fall away and you put yourself into a new way of being, you will experience abundance.
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