{"id":4705,"date":"2025-07-07T06:18:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/?p=4705"},"modified":"2025-07-07T06:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:19:06","slug":"choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/?p=4705","title":{"rendered":"Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As I daily view the news and the terrible suffering of innocents being bombed in two separate wars, I keep hearing in my memory, Joan Baez singing \u201cWhen will they ever learn? When will they ev-er learn?\u201d Then I repeat a question I have often heard others say,\u201dIf God is all powerful, why does he allow human beings to suffer?\u201d St, Augustine discovered one answer in God\u2019s gift of free will. Six centuries later, Shakespeare wrote, \u201cThe fault, dear Brutus, lies not in the stars, but in ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

As a lay astrologer, I understand that individuals are born with certain asanas (tendencies) which may later determine our vocations and behavior. And yet unforeseen happenings occur which may seriously affect our lives \u2013 both for good and ill. Still, there is choice for many of the diverse roads we walk. Who we marry. What career we choose. Where we live. Who we choose as our closest and dearest.<\/p>\r\n

At eighteen, I chose to study theology with the intent to become an educational missionary in foreign lands. At the end of my first year, after reading the great religions and western philosophies, I became an agnostic and switched schools and majors to Theatre. Choice.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

I was engaged for two years to a banker\u2019s son and yet after graduation, married a philosopher\/novelist from south India. Choice.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

So apparently, there is choice regardless of the collective madness of the outer world. So how to organize our minds and hearts to choose the right choice?<\/p>\r\n

\"\"My second book, Heal Your Self with Writing<\/em>, \u00a0written after a graduate degree in Jungian psychology, is about self-healing grief and trauma as well as creating a deeper dialogue with the Self. The core theme of this book is \u201cOur lives may be determined less by past events than by the way we choose to remember them.\u201d Choice<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n

An inspiration for Heal Your Self with Writing <\/em>was a Native American parable about a grandfather who says to his grandson, \u201cI feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart.\u00a0 One wolf is vengeful and angry; the other is loving and compassionate.\u201d\u00a0 When his grandson asks which wolf will win the fight in his heart, the old man replies, \u201cThe one I feed.\u201d \u00a0Choice<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n

How do we learn to \u201cfeed\u201d the stories that heal?\u00a0 How do we put together the pieces of our past?\u00a0 How can we re-vision our life story so that pain becomes meaningful and actually promotes growth and transformation?\u00a0 Choice again.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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