It’s as if there are two versions of me: one is calm, truthful, giving, forgiving, harmonious and wise, and the other is sometimes greedy, selfish, dishonest and argumentative.
So when I wake up every day, I say good morning to both of them, but then I vow to only listen to the wiser of the two for the rest of the day. What’s funny is that the selfish part of me is loud and obnoxious, always yelling, “Listen to me, listen to me!” while the selfless side just quietly sits there like a Buddha, with a knowing smile on his face, thinking, “You know what to do . . .”
I believe that both of these parts are within each of us, and that we are capable of being either one. The choice is ours with every decision we make. It’s like the Native American story of the old man who told his grandson, “There is a battle between two wolves inside all of us. One is Evil (it is anger, envy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies and ego), and the other is Good (it is joy, peace, love, humility, kindness, empathy and truth).” When the boy asked, “Which wolf wins?” the old man quietly replied, “The one you feed.”
It is better to have a mind opened by wonder than a mind closed by belief. —Gerry Spence”
By Timber Hawkeye
