19. Choose Energy Over Matter

In our life, we do not decide anything with total awareness, consciously. When we do not decide with awareness we are not living. We live in a series of paralysis. Several situations in our life bring us extreme pain and joy. We choose to react to a situation with pain and joy.

We can decide to live our life without any external input. This means we can decide to live without any interruption from the outside. We can actually run our life without any guidance from outer forces. We can live without any outer situations or decisions forced upon us. When we decide to live with awareness, we live. Without the conscious decision, when we are led by a series of events, we live the life of a paralyzed person.When we decide to live with awareness we understand life is our choice. We

choose what happens to us. Here is an example to make this clear. We get a new Benz car and want to take it for a drive. We get into the car and start the vehicle. After a drive around the block, we return to our garage. Now, we need to stop the car. Until that point we knew everything: how to start, operate the car, turn right, left. But the truth is that we do not know how to stop a car.

Understand! If we do not know how to stop we will not be driving the car. If we cannot stop the car when we want to, then the car has been driving us. In the same way, when we do not live with awareness, we are not living a life. The life is living us. If we don't know how to stop the car, how to live, we are just paralyzed.

The science behind it is simple. Matter is living the energy. It is not as if energy is living the matter. Matter is active because of the energy in it. There are two things in us, our being – energy, and our outer life – matter.

If we consciously decide, if our energy decides to live without being affected by the outer situations, without being touched by outer things, we start living. Our consciousness shines. Otherwise, matter lives through us. It is not that we live through

matter. Life can be living or a paralysis. It can be either way. It is our choice.

Understand this! Our being is energy. We can choose Matter or Energy to be the focus of our life. It is our choice.