We are always being asked to make choices. All directions we take are due to the choices we choose and we are, each one of us, responsible for those choices taken. We are even held responsible for the choices made by our false selves, in other words, we are held to account by whatever comes out of our own house. There are no excuses which will free us spiritually from our actions. Even if society might excuse us legally or morally from some of our actions, due to "hormonal imbalances", a temporary state of insanity, multiple personalities, or "they really didn't know what they were doing", what comes out of our house, is what we have endorsed on one level or another; payment is due and payable at all times by the Being who we are.

Most choices we make, are usually those made between a lower value and a Higher Value. The choices we make will either continue to strengthen our lower values, driving us ever deeper into the darkness of our ignorance, or we can opt to take the unfamiliar road of a Higher Value, which is often a very frightening experience. However, daring to take that step into unfamiliar territory and into the uncharted spaces within ourselves, is itself a victory. Whenever we move into new territories within our Beingness, we broaden our psychological horizon and become aware of the untouched potentials which lie within us.

Choosing to go into the unknown within is often more frightening than going into unknown territory without, but daring to take that first step into the unknown, is a great achievement. By overcoming one's fears, new opportunities will exist for moving forward on our journey of self discovery and our eventual biological transformation and spiritual evolution.

Whenever we make choices based on our ego, emotional desires, or because we want quick and short term solutions which are more attractive or easier to deal with rather than to do what we know would be best for us in the long run, these choices will only move us forward into eventual chaos and lengthen our road to Freedom. However, whenever we opt to take the path of a Higher Value by overcoming our willfulness and the fears which keep us from making the decision which we know is the right one for us, that is a giant step forward, especially when we know that that decision might bring us a much harder road to travel. We move forward into maturity and wisdom whenever we choose the Higher Value, regardless of the consequences which society will heap on us.

There are many fears which can strike us, leaving us immobile and unable to move forward into making any decision. There is the fear of going against society's mores, the fear of the untested, the fear of losing someone or something, the fear of death or having no trust or faith in one's own judgment. We can however, choose to view fear as a gift to be utilized as a tool for growth If we are able to overcome and move forward in spite of our fears, we have already traveled a long distance away from our "herd" mentality. Fear is a great equalizer that makes us see our image in the mirror of facts and shows us who we are and of what we are made.

Most of the time we do not make our choices through our own free will, for we can have no free will without a developed, central core of awareness, for it is this, this central core, which is the Real Self of our Being. Only when we have awakened to self awareness and realized who we really are, can we become the Master of our House and take control over all the false selves that live with us in the house. It is only when we have a permanent Real Self, that we can say "I" and it is only then that we have any real free will and are able to make more positive choices for ourselves.

We live in a "house divided" and need to put it in order before we can become the Master of our House. Our house has many different rooms with each one containing a different "I". All these different "Is" are clamoring and vying for control and sending us into many different and conflicting directions. Each "I" has its own desires, motives and directions it wants to go in and will, when having center stage, take control of the Being and make whichever choice suits its own needs.

Most of us are not even aware that we are a composite of all these different "Is" and we think of our self as being one and the same "I" at all times and in charge of our life. This is the sorry state of affairs of "sleeping" Mankind and until Mankind awakens to the fact that each one of us is a house divided, we will remain and function as unaware robots and a captive to all our different "Is". Until we Awaken, we are like a horse and carriage without a driver and it is only after we have developed a permanent "I" and live within the consciousness of our Higher Self, that we will be able to be the master over our own house and able to chart a purposeful course for our self.

It is only after we have awoken from our sleep and have become the Master, that we will begin to understand that there are many false selves living within us and only after that, will we be able to begin to distinguish between our Real Self and each individual character who surfaces and tries to take charge.

By being alert to this various cast of characters, we can come to recognize each individual when it surfaces. Some will be known to us but some lie so deep within our depths, that we did not know they existed until they erupt to the surface due to some trauma inflicted upon our Being. It is one or the other of all these various characters who, depending on the event occurring, or on the Being's dominant emotion of the moment, that 'triggers" a particular "I" to surface, to take center stage and control of the Being.

Until the Real Self has become permanently ensconced as Master, the Real Self can still be obliterated whenever one of the stronger false selves takes center stage. The willy-nilly choices made by the various false selves often go against the very choices that the Real Self would have taken. Is it any wonder why it is so hard to steer a straight path towards a meaningful and positive goal, when the multitude of characters living with us are always sending us off into so many different and conflicting directions and keeping us in a state of confusion and indecision.

Choices are possible because we live here on Earth, a realm which is under the rule of the law of duality and of cause and effect and it is due to this duality that choices exist, making learning and growth possible. Through growth, we are given the opportunity for further advancement on our evolutionary path, for that is the real purpose of our being here. Realms which lie beyond duality, mind and matter, are static in their completeness and therefore change is not possible.

Living within the law of duality binds us to a state of constant flux; our lives are constantly shifting, not only without but also within and constant changes call for the making of many choices. Some of our most frequent and painful choices we are asked to make are those between the longings and passions of the heart and the diverse "black and white", "cut and dried" opinions of the intellect.

Often when a choice we made doesn't bring the results we expected, then we think we have made a mistake. In the long run we cannot make wrong choices for there is no such thing as a "mistake", there is only ignorance. In the short term, some choices we make due to our ignorance can cause us more pain and hardships than would have been necessary had we made a different choice; a different choice might have made that particular step of the journey easier and faster. In the long run however, we can never escape a lesson which needs to be learned and sooner or later a lesson bypassed will come around again, giving us another opportunity at it.

Sometimes a seemingly positive choice might at first bring pain and chaos and only much later culminate into a positive outcome. Having had no positive result but rather a negative one, we think that we have made a wrong choice and it is only later, when we are capable of looking back down the tunnel of our past, that the real reason for that choice becomes clear and we are able to "see" that the choice was a necessary "mistake" needed to take us to the next step, which would lead us towards the culmination of our original choice. This is how many of our seemingly mistaken choices were the correct choices after all. We are always given what we need, which is not necessarily what we desired or thought we needed.

We must always remember that it is not within our power as to when or how the outcome to our choices arrive. Outcomes are never within our control, for there are many intricate elements and events, which need to come together and into play at just the right moment in order to produce the results of our choices. The outcomes will only materialize when the events in our life are ripe for them to do so. Nothing in the Universe is wasted, not our choices, not our thoughts, nor our actions and aspirations. Eventually all will come back to us but not necessarily when we wish them to. The results of our choices might simply not be ready to materialize yet, it might not be the right time for us and only when the events in our life are ripe for that choice, will it activate. It might not be until many years later or even not until another lifetime and often the outcomes we wished and planned for, will come in a different form than what we had envisioned.

Whatever roads open to us due to our choices, or due to the descent of Grace, there are particular lessons waiting to be experienced and lessons to be learned If a particular road needs to be traversed we might not find or take it through our own awareness but rather be guided into that direction, but no matter how we find that road, whether by an act of Grace or through a maze of our own making, we will arrive at our intended destination sooner or later; the sooner or later depends on us.

Wherever we are meant to arrive, we will eventually get there, no matter what choices we have made. For instance, if it is ordained that we go to Philadelphia, then we will be guided in making those choices which will help to get us there. If we know by the repeated promptings from our Higher Self that we need to go to a particular destination, we will have free will in choosing how to get there - whether by a direct route or by many by-lanes and convoluted turns — planning the road map is then within our hands.

Many of our choices are not made through our reasoning power or emotional reactions but deep down within the hidden depth of our subliminal Beingness. Some choices are made due to intuition but intuition is a two-edged sword, for it is often difficult to determine whether it is really intuition or just the ego's manipulations, for many times intuition is usurped by the ego which then uses the intuition's message for its own purposes — the ego is a cunning foe and knows all our weaknesses and will take control whenever it can.

The choices we make can change us in two ways — one is to alter our personality, either strengthening or weakening it and the other is to grow our essence. Rarely do we make those life altering choices, which are so deep and powerful, that they affect and transform our essence, even though the whole purpose for all our lifetimes, is to do just that. By contrast, changes to our personality are much easier made; we merely have to make those choices which will change our habits.

Positive changes made in our personality will definitely make us a better person as far as society is concerned but personality is only a temporary entity and all that the personality contains will cease to exist after its death. In contrast, the DNA of the Being who we really are, is our essence, the core of our Immortal Self and all that has been added on to essence during each lifetime will continue to exist. Growth of essence is the only possession that we can take with us when we leave this world.

In the end, all the choices we made will eventually bring us to the same conclusion — that of a transformative turning point on our evolutionary path. That shift will lead us forever out of our present small and dark consciousness, which is sustained by lower values and which still remains rooted deep within the legacy of the animal kingdom and our animal body.

The length of our road to reach this turning point, is up to each individual and depends on when we make the choice to steer our self out of the stagnant pond of our lower value consciousness and to begin living within the sea of the Higher Values. By choosing to take the path of Higher Values, we will further transform our Beingness and advance us further along the Road to Glory.