Our ability to choose our actions, what we want to do in life, is our most precious attribute; without it, we feel we are a slave to what other people want from us, or want us to do. We’ve always been told we have free will, but very often, we seem to be doing not what we want, but what our parents, teachers, our boss, or the laws of our country make us do.
We allow other considerations than what we actually want, to dictate our behavior. We always have the possibility to think, and to believe, whatever we want; but when it comes to actions, and in some cases even words, which necessarily involve other people, we must be more careful of what we put out.
We are a material expression of our soul, the Spirit that only obeys spiritual laws, but when that Spirit lives in a material body, there are some rules and regulations that the body needs to observe in order to live a safe, and comfortable life in this 3D dimension. But spiritual laws always trump the material laws that have been established by humans so that life can run smoothly and without too many painful bumps.
When you’re working for a company, or a boss, and they require you to work on a certain project, or perform certain tasks after normal working hours, even if you don’t really want to do that, you do it anyway, seeing the necessity for it, and giving up the time you had wanted to spend with your partner or your spouse. You may even be doing it out of fear that your boss would find someone willing to be more flexible, and you would lose your job. So you’re also doing it for your convenience, security, and continued salary!
All of that is legitimate, even if it goes against what you really want, and you’re yielding to the will of another person, partly also for a benefit to you. But it doesn’t go against your integrity, against what you know to be right, against what your soul would want.
However, if your boss was looking for a merger with another firm, and required you to lie about the financial standing or the solvability of the company, this is where you never agree to the demand made of you, even if potentially, it would mean you losing your job. You need to know what your values are, and always act in integrity with your highest ones.
Very often circumstances, not just what we desire most, dictate our choices, but those choices must always be in integrity with the spiritual laws of life, not necessarily with the material laws, even if they often coincide. When they don’t, spiritual laws must take precedence, or the ultimate outcome will be pain and suffering.
