The Paradox Of Freedom Of Choice

The Paradox of Freedom of Choice is that we are all born with it and we are all born without it.

Choice requires both knowledge & wisdom, which we are born with and born without; unless and until we remember the paradox. Parents who have forgotten their own freedom of choice, deny it to their children with their own imposed choice. Parents offer their children security, not freedom.

With the wisdom of knowing wise knowledge, choice is a matter of acceptance. I just accept that it is present as a beneficial opportunity in life. An opportunity is always beneficial and a beneficial opportunity is a wise choice.

Without the wisdom of wise knowledge, we do as we are told and do as we are taught. We are taught to avoid problems in life, until we learn a solution for every problem; which we never do. The wise choice is to see life as an opportunity, not a problem.

Wise choices allow opportunities to flow freely. As I choose each opportunity, I allow opportunities to continuously flow freely. When I see what is occurring as problematic, it has no choice but to continue to occur as a problem. Opportunities are a freedom of choice, unless I deny that choice with an apparent problem.

Problems occur in life, from birth, when I have no wise knowledge of what an opportunity is. My innate wisdom is useless without the knowledge that is required to make beneficial choices.

From birth, we all forsake our innate wisdom for the knowledge taught to us through the principles of our family, the morals of our church, the ethics of our professionals, the rules of our society and the laws of our governments. General knowledge is devoid of personal wisdom. Making the same choices as everyone else is never wise. We are free to choose the intellectual knowledge of our peers or the intuitive knowing of our own innate wisdom. The problem is, we are born without the knowledge that wisdom is innate, not learned. By the time we enter the Education System of our society, our free intuitive wisdom is lost to the rational teaching of a patronising society.

We always retain the freedom of choice between knowledge & wisdom, yet that choice is denied by the belief that knowledge is wisdom. Current society believes spiritual knowledge to be religious theology, which is not wise. It favours scientifically provable knowledge called facts to be preferable to innate wisdom, which is equally unwise.

Religion teaches faith in other people’s theological knowledge and science teaches knowledge in other people’s provable facts. Without any rational proof that innate wisdom exists, only rational intellectual knowledge is deemed to be wise. In such a society, the most knowledgeable impose their choice on the less knowledgeable. We are all born with less knowledge than our parents and more wisdom than our parents. No matter how hard we strive, our individual, unique & exclusive opportunities in life struggle to occur when we fail to recognise them. We had no choice but to accept the education of other people, with knowledge that is devoid of wisdom.

Freedom of Choice is denied to each of us, individually, unless we can personally prove that our own innate wisdom is responsible. We are all free to choose responsible choices but face the imposition of mandated laws, rules, ethics, morals & principle standards to ensure that our choices are not irresponsible.

  • Irresponsible choices are deemed to be irrational, incompetent, reactive & unwise
  • Responsible choices are deemed to be rational, competent, responsive & wise

When wisdom is believed to be the affect of making a rational, competent response, it is no longer innate and therefore no longer wise.

We are all born with the instinct of intuitive knowledge, which is wise. We are taught the learned wisdom of intellectual knowledge, which is without innate wisdom.

Whereas we never lose our innate freedom of choice, we lose our ability to freely choose wisely until we reclaim the knowledge of our wisdom, through learning the error of other people’s ways.

When freedom of choice is a way of life, I find my way in life through my freedom of choice.