Choices and choosers - Awake or Asleep?

will post a note i wrote that was underappreciated at the very least elsewhere

Actually the two choices have always been: "you do or you do not" and those are the only choices we all have. and they have always been more than enough. >;p it's called freewill. ain't nothing more powerful than that, when you fully realize you are free.No one can force you to do anything, not even God. so give credit to the people choosing their choices. if they let anything influence them... that too is a choice....

so will you move on or not?
magmumukmok ka pa ba or not?
will you choose to be better for this or not?
hehe.. i know your going to be alright , specially after our chat . choose to love. choose to live fully. choose to be better than what you were no matter what(ala team Gai sa naruto ba, hehe - better than i was a minute ago).

It is really about free will and when it comes to that: are you exercising it awake or asleep?Are you being led or are you walking through life on your own power? are you living your life or the life something/someone wants you to?

You are free, no doubt. Created to be free, meant to be free. Only thing is.. if you are not awake to fully appreciate it, you waste it. Exercise your freedom will you?

Appreciating Gratuitous Beauty Gratuitously

why do we not miss a particular sunset we saw at a particular time some day somewhere?we may miss sunsets in general but i don’t think we miss any particular one(so long as we do not associate it with anything else).Maybe because we enjoy it for what it is and for what it gives us at that moment. no more no less.Maybe because we know for sure that another sunset will give us the same pleasure we experienced. Maybe because we appreciate it for what it truly is and do not expect more from it at the moment we enjoy it. We do not try to own it nor do we develop a sense of entitlement to it and to what it gives us. We stop everything to just enjoy its gratuitous beauty. Maybe because we fully immerse in the joy of the moments with it and thus truly know it/experience it without owning it for ourselves. So much so that when the moment/s with it passes, we can only smile when we think about it fondly and we look forward to the next sunset to enjoy(whenever that will be ) with great expectation.

Why can’t we do the same with people(just enjoy their individual gratuitous beauty)?Maybe this is the secret of doing away the terrible ‘missing’ and to truly enjoy the people life sends our way all of the time. To truly know/ enjoy something you must be as detached(but as passionate) to it as possible[it's a bit of a paradox i know]. The bible said something like this somewhere about not getting too attached to the things of this world and about truly loving creation(we all are creations/creatures too)

Frustrations..

So few do not have the laziness AND delve deeper into what words or a string of words mean... so few, reflect, contemplate, pour their minds to the lessons people of the past try to teach them.. they only know these as "Quotes".. thus my frustration with the sloganeering of truths. People quote these, not because they want to share the inherent value of what someone from the past paid a lifetime to learn, but because of some base and contemptimble reason the end of which is usually a satisfying of either of their: pride, vanity, naivete. gaaah. i rant! now i'm gonna share some of the more loaded lessons i've stumbled upon:
"A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. "
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"For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow."
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"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."(people have reduced this to the pedestrian -sigh-)
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"All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. "
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"Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are. "
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"The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men."
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"And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?" "
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"Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone."