Every decision you make - every decision that you make every second - is not a decision about what to do, it is a decision about who you are. Every act is an act of self-definition.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that our choices reflect our identity and values.
Neale Donald Walsch's quote suggests that every decision we make is not merely about choosing an action, but rather about shaping and affirming who we are as individuals. It highlights the significant role our choices play in defining our identity and underscores the idea that every act of decision-making serves to express our true selves.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth and responsibility.
What you hope, you will eventually believe. _x000D_ What you believe you will eventually know. What you know, you will eventually create. What you create, _x000D_ you will eventually experience. What you experience, _x000D_ you will eventually express. What you express, _x000D_ you will eventually become. _x000D_ This is the formula for all of life.
Fear and guilt are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Do not confuse one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.
Your whole life is a message. Every act is an act of self-definition . Everything you think, say and do sends a message about you.
Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.
When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world, and not needing is a great freedom.
Giving up is not the answer. Neither is giving in. Stand your ground. There is a way of doing that without having to be combative. There is a way of hanging on to your true self, and demonstrating it, without resorting to aggression. But giving up and giving in is not the way. Simply and quietly claiming your right to be You is the way.
The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.
The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.
Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with many others, the capacity to destroy is immense. Where goodness is the motive, unity is phenomenal and actually has some good issues to it.
There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
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