choices, a human strategy, aphorism 443

443

There are not so many choices to thought as we would suppose, and we profane those few which remain.  We believe that pushing an issue to its conclusion is a choice, wherein allowing the issue to develop on its own, favorably, is the least tenable but most substantial “choice.” We “intend” an outcome to an event — like  “pure thinkers” hinged to their logic.  We stop up our ears to take sole credit for the dance, but are no longer dancing.  

Unstopping the ears and waiting for the music are the more substantial choices.  We dance by our not “willing” too much.  This choosing ... this getting out of one’s own way must require more discipline and preparation than one can endure, for why else would we have so few dancers?

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