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When I first began studying spirituality, or metaphysics, with a group of like-minded individuals, there was the idea that each of us had to discern 'God's will,' as opposed to our own. I and my comrades spent many hours discussing these concepts of will--free will, divine will, surrender, fighting, cursing against, working against. To be fair, the hours spent in this activity were hours in which I was not getting in trouble in some other fashion. Much coffee and many cigarettes were consumed. No answers were found.
The passage of years and one's survival brings about an understanding of these questions that is above reproach and that turns out to be so much more simple than ever I would have imagined. There is, indeed, a very simple determining factor as to whether or not something is the will of God: If it's happening, it's God's will. The question is never God's will or my will; the question is, do I choose to seek to align myself with God's will. In our study of the Vedic worldview, it becomes even more simple: do I choose to go along with the movement of the laws of nature, or do I choose to try to swim against the current that is?
The conversations we used to have carried within their logic system the idea that "I" had something to say about what happens in the world. In truth, as it turns out, "I" am merely one point of perception in what is happening. Choice is in my resistance to what is happening, or my decision joyfully to join in. I can say that what is happening is wrong, bad, even evil; still, it will happen. What will I do with what is? That is the question. Will I give myself the opportunity to enjoy it? Will I stay out of despair and remain present so that I may make the most of it for myself and others?
Today I will stay present, that I may discern the movement of the law's of nature, that I may choose joyfully to move in that direction myself.
 Grand Tetons, Evening
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