We can choose

" There is a great Choice that awaits us

every day: whether we go around carving

Holes in others because we have been so

painfully carved ourselves, or whether

we let Spirit play its Song through our

tender Experience, enabling us to listen,

as well, to the miraculous Music

coming through others. "

                                                                - Mark Nepo

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we have a choice

each day

each encounter

we can choose to pass on our own pain

and misery

or we can choose

instead

to pass on love and compassion

we can choose to see people

as those to be used

influenced or

manipulated

perhaps even judged and rejected

shamed and oppressed

or we can choose to see others as precious souls

through whom the music of the divine flows

we have a choice