Making Discerning Choices Inspired by Love

“Be universal in your love.

You will see the universe to be a picture of your own being.”

—Sri Chinmoy

Making discerning choices inspired by love leads to actions based on a broader spiritual perspective, and prepares the way for loving relationships with ourselves, others, and the world. As the transformative energy of love in today’s world continues to shift human consciousness, we are being guided away from choices that prevent us from loving ourselves and others. Choices inspired by lower vibrational frequencies originating from fear, negativity, and stress result in suffering, imbalance, and disease.

Even though many people think they are making choices based on a positive outlook―such as choosing “good” over “evil,” or “right” over “wrong,” their options have usually been limited by fear-based egos and beliefs that see the world as polarized. When we make discerning choices inspired by love, on the other hand, we are propelled beyond such polarities, and beyond the egos which created them, into a more universal, encompassing, and loving worldview.

Most people do not realize that, even before birth, we make spiritual choices, thereby co-creating our lives after birth and impacting other choices we make during our lives. The spiritual choices we make before we are born―such as choosing our body, gender, parents, and circumstances―impact our lives. Knowing that we are responsible for these prior choices can shift our consciousness and affect our current choices while living on Earth. The conscious awareness that we made such choices before we were born empowers us to make choices during our lives that, guided by spirit and inspired by love, help us shift to a higher vibrational frequency and perceive our life circumstances from a more spiritual perspective.

Currently, our spiritual development has evolved to the point where we are taking more responsibility for our choices. We are finally recognizing that we have the ability to consciously co-create our reality instead of relinquishing that power to others, our circumstances, or shirk our responsibility to make conscious choices by leaving it to someone else. When we operate as the source of love, we can make enlightened choices that are not bound by gender, culture, or the dictates of others, and thus live more authentically and move in accordance with a universal perspective, one focused on what’s best for our world as a whole.

For many of us, making choices can be confusing, if not overwhelming. Our brains store so many prescriptions of what we “should” do that selecting only those in alignment with our hearts can be baffling. Being creatures of habit, we often make choices based on routines or patterns instead of on what truly resonates with our souls. Living in this way, our energy stagnates. We feel uninspired and stuck. A heaviness permeates our choices, and fear of change impedes our creativity. Fearful that we will make a wrong choice, we may become paralyzed and avoid choosing altogether. However, not making a choice out of fear or insecurity is still, in fact, making a choice; when we do this, we are simply choosing to let external events, other people, or blind chance dictate our experience. If we desire to move forward spiritually, we cannot let such fears keep us from making the most choices that most support our well-being. Only when we begin making discerning choices inspired by universal love instead of personal fear do we feel like creators of our lives in sync with all of life. 

Love frees us to make distinctive choices beyond the options presented through limited mind-sets. Share on X With love, such enlightened choices, however challenging, are not daunting; if we feel connected to our love source, we know we are well equipped to handle any situation. We can trust that we have created the support and opportunities we need to transform our lives for the better.

Although making discerning choices inspired by love does not necessarily help us avoid contact with the unwanted energies or influences of others, it does enable us to remain non-reactive, compassionately detached, and more quickly remove ourselves from negative situations. When our choices are supported by love, we create a continuous flow of positive energy that can transcend negative energies and move us toward realizing our dreams.

There is always more to our lives than we consciously register. In making discerning choices inspired by love, we become masters of our destiny, trusting that our lives are unfolding in the best way possible to realize our dreams and support the dreams of others, and the betterment of humanity.