Choice is the act of hesitation that we make before making a decision,
it is a mental wobbling.
And so we are always in a dither of doubt,
as to whether we are behaving the right way or doing the right thing,
and so on and so forth…and lack a certain kind of self-confidence.
And if you see you lack self-confidence,
you will make mistakes through sheer fumbling.
If you do have self-confidence
you may carry get away with doing entirely the wrong thing.
You have to regard yourself as a cloud, in the flesh.
Because you see, clouds never make mistakes.
Did you ever see a cloud that is misshapen?
Did you ever see a badly designed wave?
No, they always do the right thing.
But if you would treat yourself for a while as a cloud or wave,
and realize you can’t make a mistake, whatever you do,
cause even if you do something that seems to be totally disastrous,
it will all come out in the wash somehow or other.
Then through this capacity, you will develop a kind of confidence,
and through confidence, you will be able to trust your own intuition.
But this is the middle way,
of knowing it has nothing to do with your decision to do this or not,
whether you decide you can’t make a mistake
or whether you don’t decide it, it is true anyway,
that you are like cloud and water.
And through that realization without overcompensating in the other direction,
you will come to the point of where you begin to be on good terms with your own being
and to be able to trust your own brain.”
Alan Watts, Choice
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