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With free will we have opportunity to decide who and what we want to be. This is something that just a hundred or so years ago was difficult.
A hundred years ago we were what we were. If my father was a shoemaker, I was a shoemaker. If my father worked in the factory, I worked in the factory. If my father worked on the farm, I worked on the farm. Of course there are hardly any farms anymore. The world is changing quickly, and we need to adjust our thinking to the fast pace of change or get left behind. Of course, this gives us a new opportunity to explore our lives and what we want in totally different way.
Of course people don’t like change. They resist change, and what in their life is the paradox they keep hoping for? Positive change. I hope I get a raise. I hope that I get a better job. I hope and hope and hope. And when the change actually comes, I hope I don’t screw up with the new promotion. So while secretly hoping for the raise, the promotion, the sale, the scholarship, when someone gets it they are afraid of losing it.
It seems that a lot of us live our lives in confusion about what we really want, and when we get it we are not sure that we want it. Ever hear someone say, “Be careful what you wish for, it could come true”?
So if we have carefully thought out our goals and the values that we want in our life, and then we do get the things that we wish, we are prepared to move forward and get other things that will satisfy us in this life.
Are we old enough in this life to determine that we are not physical beings having a spiritual experience, but spiritual beings having a physical experience?
What kind of perspective does that put on the human spirit of the world? We no longer are what we were in the past, but we have grown up to be something more in the future. Your future, your life, your happiness. We have evolved right before our very eyes.
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