I got briefly sucked into this question again earlier tonight when I was trying to decide whether to call a friend of mine back tonight, or whether to wait until tomorrow to call her. I started weighing the pros and cons, trying to figure out which choice the Holy Spirit was guiding me to take, before I realized the foolishness of my thoughts. In that moment, I had the realization that there is never any “right” choice when it comes to the choices on the level of form in this world (choices of behavior).   

It’s such a classic ego trick to make us think that we must make decisions on this level and that the decisions we make matter.  Now, of course, from a worldly perspective they sure SEEM to matter, but I’m not interested in the worldly perspective anymore, for that is the perspective the ego WANTS me to stay interested in.   Some might think that would make me become irresponsible (for I’ve often worried that myself), but deep down I know that when I focus on the spiritual perspective, my worldly decisions will always be what’s best for all, in spite of appearances to the contrary.  Besides, we truly have no way of ever judging what’s best for another or ourselves, so we are deceived if we even try.

Nothing that we do here matters, for “we” aren’t the person who’s here in the first place.  We are merely watching a dream character within a meaningless dream that is long since over.  The person we think we are is no more “us” than is the actor in a movie that we’re watching.  Therefore, we have absolutely no control over what the character does in the movie.  It’s not us!  It seems like it’s us, and that we have control, and that it matters what this character does, but all of that is an illusion.  The belief that we have control over what our bodies choose to do in this dream is what keeps us stuck here, by preventing us from considering the only REAL choice we ever have: to interpret our experiences with the ego or with the Holy Spirit.

Another way of resolving the problem when you are seemingly stuck in trying to make a tough decision I’ve realized, is to realize that no worldly outcome is better or worse than any other.  They are all equally meaningless.  They can all be seen as equally good or bad, depending on which inner teacher you are interpreting them with. This takes all the pressure off, and makes the process of deciding seem a lot easier.

Once we fully grok that nothing we do here matters, then we no longer will have any concerns about the future.  It is only our concerns about what might happen to our bodies or personalities that cause us to get trapped into the “What should I do?” conundrum.  We can stop worrying by realizing that no matter what happens, it has no power to take away the peace of God from us.  We can realize that even if something absolutely horrendous happened – like getting raped, tortured, or murdered, to use the most extreme possibilities – it can always be used as a forgiveness opportunity.  And as challenging as those situations would be for most of us to practice forgiveness on, it still is true that through the eyes of the Holy Spirit, they are no different from any other forgiveness opportunity.  If we get upset, it’s only because we wanted to become upset.   I realize this is a radical viewpoint – and I certainly wouldn’t recommend going out and looking for any of those types of forgiveness lessons! – but radical viewpoints are what we need if we truly want to awaken.  

I think the simplest way to look at all this is just to remember that there is truly only one answer to the question, “What should I do?”, and the answer is always the same… you should forgive.