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Conscience and Life’s Big Questions
Let your conscience be your guide
Life is a riddle, a gamble, a game of chance where sometimes your best guesstimate is all you’ve got to go on. You’re underwater swimming blind. We’re taught to use logic, to employ common sense, to write down in the middle of the night our lengthy lists of pros and cons, and go from there, even though we are none the wiser. We are encouraged to make our decisions based on external factors and on an as yet, unlived future. All the hedging of bets and playing it safe and doing the smart thing may be at odds though, with doing the right thing.
When facing life’s big questions one has to do what is right for you.
The right thing for you is always what your heart wants. What rests easy there in your chest sp, the choice is the one that makes you feel expansive and light.
The heart wants what it wants.
- Emily Dickinson
Sometimes what we want, what resonates, doesn’t make any sense. Like the lawyer who quits the firm to become a florist working out of an old shed down by the wharf. Sometimes the people you love do not support your choice. What? How will you pay for your blah blah if you cut your income into smithereens?
But that lawyer, because she followed her heart, met the love of her life. He was…
