Stubbornness: The Only Real-Time Sin

No path is wrong because all wrong can be redeemed. Search back along the path until we reach the point where there was no sin of a particular nature. Remember life prior to that point. That life was ours! We can reclaim it! Resist the tendency to relinquish control to the "present," the present habit, which consists of past repeated behavior beginning with the original sin. But there are multiple pasts, segments of pasts, phases. An appropriate present--without the quotes--would consist of consciously chosen pasts and completely novel present actions. It would not be a complete repetition of the past.

In fact, history in its entirety is cruel and purposeless. But taken in segments, we see parts that we like and parts that we'd rather edit out. Editing out doesn't mean erasing the past, though. Keep that article there, like an old newspaper clipping catalogued in huge drawers. Editing out means removing its redundant rewriting in the present article. The present article should be free to explore new territory, not encumbered revisiting past stories that even with the continual replaying, we haven't gotten enough of yet. Remember how many times they showed the twin towers falling on TV? We have the same habit as the mass media. Rerun, rerun, and rerun dramas. Perhaps a change of cast here and there, even genre innovations, but the same themes.

Editing out will free up the channels to display something genuinely novel. Editing out frees up the mind to create new thoughts and entertain new perspectives. Eliminate Stubbornness, the only true sin. It is a real-time sin, something we're doing right now, not the past. Yes, we may have been addicted in the past and potentially again in the future, but right now, we have the choice to reject the real-time sin of stubbornness.

This is true freedom. Freedom is not the freedom to break a law, done merely to rebel against the law, written or unwritten. Freedom is the opportunity to make a deliberate choice whether to break the law. Freedom is the opportunity to make a deliberate choice whether to break the habit, to break stubbornness.