Opinion
Making New Year Resolution
It is the saying of the sages that a man must discover his weakness and conquer it or his weakness will conquer him. And if the latter becomes the case, he is found wanting because it means that he does not want to make a change, to turn his life around.
In our journey of life, we always have choices, and consistent choices lay the foundation for our habits, weaknesses or strength, sorrows or joy, success or failure, and so on.
Life gives to us what we take from it. So it is our own responsibility to make choices of thoughts, words, and actions that give us that momentum required to raise us to the heights of our desire.
Some momentum makers identified by many spiritual leaders, philosophers, and writers include faith, love, humility, gratitude, and giving. Others are focus, commitment, creativity, vision, persistence, and character or discipline. Conversely, some momentum breakers are doubts, indecision, ingratitude, procrastination, irritability, and profanity. Other momentum breakers are fear, drug habit, vanity, attachment, envy, aimlessness, and several phases of the perversions of the mind.
The world of momentum makers is the world of independence, inspiration, and freedom, while the world of momentum breakers is the world of restriction, obstacles, and confusion.
The choice between the two worlds is entirely that of the individual.
Choice is a two-edged sword. It can make a man great. It can also destroy a man.
Perhaps, this is why to some people, making a choice is a daily challenge.
Others wait till the very beginning of every year, January 1, before making any vital choice that will direct the affairs of their lives through the year. Such people call such a choice new year resolution. Whether it is a new day , a new week, a new month, or a new year resolution, to shun lust , greed, anger, attachment, and vanity and embrace such sterling qualities as chastity, contentment, forgiveness, detachment, and humility involve making a choice; a choice between perversion and virtue.
To make a choice is to face a decision. But that is not all. One requires determination and discipline – inner strength – to live the choice, to walk the talk. Inner strength does not mean the ability to control all things in ones life including the intensity and the unpredictability of ones emotions. It does not also mean the ability to beat those in competition with one. It means the self-mastery of all that comes into ones life: both actions and reactions. And it means having the eye of the tiger.
The person with the eye of the tiger is a leader who walks towards the momentum breakers that want to paralyze him, routing them out of his way.
He jumps into the main stream of life with his eyes on a wealth of opportunities for growth and service to God and humanity. The sleepy ones, the idle ones with weak will do not have the eye of the tiger.
This is a precious life time. It is our duty to use it well. The spiritual leader of Eckankar, Sri Harold Klemp wrote: “The future is unformed for soul, which can assemble its own destiny from among an endless array of possibilities. But It must learn to act as if.”
It is good to make a resolution.
Whether it is made moment to moment or once a year, do something now to act it out. It was John L. Mason, who said in his book titled: “Let Go of whatever makes you stop: “The basic problem most people have is that they are doing nothing to solve their basic problem.”
When you make a resolution, you animate your destiny, stimulate your growth, and set invisible causes or forces into motion.
The manifestation of your resolution or choice remains in the womb of time. But insincerity, flattery, and bigotry delay it. Why? Because we have transmitted so much lies into our inner self and deceived ourselves and others such that a deep gulf is created between the centre of truth within us and our untruthful outer-self.
In his book “The flute of God, the Spiritual Master and Writer, Paul Twitchell stated that it is not true that things immediately get easier for the individual when he thought builds. According to him: “If you have been indulging in wrong thoughts and things, they often have to work themselves out before something better comes into your consciousness.”
This explains why some people make resolutions January after January without a concrete manifestation of their desires.
Thus any person’s success in making resolutions depends on his ability to conquer his lower self, his negative passions. It can be on endless struggle. But the easiest and most practical approach to achieving the desired success is to make ones resolutions based on the love of God and his fellow creatures, common good, and purity of heart.
Vincent Ochonma
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