Talk with Professor Chan, I found one cannot control the events, but can control their response, mindset, emotion. It is our response, mindset, emotion that design our destiny, not events.
How to set ourselves free? Embarrassing challenges and difficulties is the only way to be free.
6-6-2012
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How to set ourselves free? Embarrassing challenges and difficulties is the only way to be free.
6-6-2012
Agree with you, Eugene. We have 100% freedom to choose how we want to respond to everything that happens in our life. We're choice-makers; and every choice we make determines 'Who I am'.
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It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. I realised, somehow, through the screaming in my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn't sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it's all you've got, that freedom is a universe of possibility. And the choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.
(_Shantaram_, by Gregory David Roberts)
Striking reflection.
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