{"id":2672,"date":"2011-06-15T09:08:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T13:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2011-06-14T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T22:24:00","slug":"the-sole-commandment-of-conscious-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2011\/06\/the-sole-commandment-of-conscious-living.html","title":{"rendered":"The sole commandment of conscious living"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Carpe diem<\/em>, goes the old Latin tag. “Seize the day.”\u00a0 The sole commandment of conscious living is no less proactive, but more conscious:\u00a0choose the day<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We have learned that what we encounter on any day has a great deal to do with what we bring to that day. We draw or repel different events and encounters according to our attitudes and the basic energy we are carrying. We find doors open or closed according to our willingness or refusal to change our expectations and our plans as circumstances change.<\/p>\n

We choose every day, whether we are aware of this or not. If we tell ourselves we have no choice, that is a choice we are making. If we tell ourselves that we have no choice because a situation is beyond our control, we forget that we can still choose our response to the world, and that can change everything.<\/p>\n

Truth, in our lives, is what we remember and act upon. Lists of rules or intentions can become like grocery lists; we are forever in danger of forgetting items or getting what matters mixed up.<\/p>\n

So my list of personal commandments reduces to this: Choose <\/em>the day. The content of that choice is less important than the consciousness that we have a choice and need to approach life, on any day, as choosers<\/em>, not spectators, victims, or consumers.<\/p>\n

\"Activedreaming Adapted from Active Dreaming<\/a>: Journeying beyond Self-Limitation to a Life of Wild Freedom <\/em>by Robert Moss. Published by New World Library.<\/p>\n

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