March 08, 2008

Choice and Thinking

We find ourselves constantly doing what we don’t want to do. 
I say something which I regret later. We are driven and controlled by external and alien forces. 
But we have a choice. For instance to not let one silly traffic incident spoil the rest of our day. 
We even have a choice as to what we think. 
We can change what we think. 
We can become aware that what we are thinking about someone (which is classically a projection) is not true. And hence we can choose to think something else. 

We can choose to not think. 
(Free) Choice and will predate and fore-go thinking. 
They operate thinking and thus feeling. The work of touching the shadow and re-taking projections is actually not thinking anymore. 
It is consciousness.

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