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Do I Have a Destiny? |
Question: If the Universe determines my destiny, what role do I play in shaping my fate?
Gary: The Universe does not burden you with a destiny. It provides you with potential.
How much of that potential you realize depends upon the choices that you make.
At each moment you are given an opportunity to choose. What you choose leads you
to more choices. Each of those choices leads you to yet more choices, and so on.
For example, a person who speaks rudely to you gives you an opportunity to choose how you will respond.
Will you withdraw emotionally? Will you become angry? Will you be able to see his or her fear and pain,
and respond appropriately? The choice is always yours whether the issue is a rude person, the death of a
friend, losing a job or missing the bus. When you make a choice you pass through one of several doorways.
The rest of the doorways close, and you are again presented with more choices—more doorways. In each instance,
one of the choices available to you is the optimal choice. The optimal choice that you can make in any situation
is to grow spiritually. That means intending to create harmony, sharing, cooperation and reverence for Life.
Moment by moment you are presented with an array of choices, one of which is optimal, no matter what you
previously chose. There is wisdom in each of your choices because each of them creates consequences that
you will experience, and, if you choose, learn from.
Your path through the Earth school is plotted choice by choice—your choices, not the Universe's.
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