December 2020

On Choice and Love – an incident above the Bay of Bengal

To me, being able to exercise real choice or freewill was always tied to a sense of being ‘right’ – of knowing. At a certain point in my life I began to value being awake, more than being right. Countless times when we discover a wrong choice,  one made due to misinformation, unconscious motives, or simply ignorance, there is the opportunity to make a different one, a more informed choice. The act of choosing as freely and consciously as one is capable of is, to me what counts. How real and precious our capacity for choice is was made irrefutably

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On Choice and Love – an incident above the Bay of Bengal

To me, being able to exercise real choice or freewill was always tied to a sense of being ‘right’ – of knowing. At a certain point in my life I began to value being awake, more than being right. Countless times when we discover a wrong choice,  one made due to misinformation, unconscious motives, or simply ignorance, there is the opportunity to make a different one, a more informed choice. The act of choosing as freely and consciously as one is capable of is, to me what counts. How real and precious our capacity for choice is was made irrefutably

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