Each of us is responsible for finding our own reason to live.*
Bruce Feiler

True choice is a dilemma … A choice between two irreconcilable goods, or the lesser of two evils.**
Robert McKee

How to choose? –
To go for one option is to dismiss the other or others,
But what we swap choice for is
intensity of heart:
When you commit you deepen presence.
Though your choice narrows
the range of possibility now open to you,
it increases the intensity of chosen possibility.^

Wholeheartedness –
Carlos Castenedas passes on ancient wisdom when he records,
Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good;
if it doesn’t, it is of no use.
Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart,
the other doesn’t … One makes you strong;
the other weakens you.^^

My own experience, after
choosing to focus on helping others
to know their heart, is that more choices follow,
A wholehearted life keeps on bringing them to us.

*Bruce Feiler’s Life Is In the Transitions;
**Robert McKee‘s newsletter: The Beauty of Character Dilemma;
^John O’Donohoe’s Eternal Echoes;
^^Carlos Castenedas’ The Teachings of Don Juan.