We live our life in the service of having our way and getting what we want. Why not? What alternative is there? All life, every living thing, throughout the Cosmos lives to have its way and get what it wants. Flip it to not have our way and not get what we want. We would be wanting to do that, no? We are stuck. We cannot get away from living to please ourselves. The best we can do is to want what the situation calls for and do that when, where, and how it needs to be done, and to be quite content (happy) with the outcome. Wanting what needs to be wanted, doing what needs to be done, in each situation as it arises, all our life long, puts us in the eternal and everlasting position of seeing, hearing, knowing, understanding, doing the right thing at the right time in the right place and the right way, no matter what, all the time, forever. It is the Way. Let’s be up and about it!
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