Is there a "wrong" path?

[Shin'Ar]

The wrong path is the path you walk which your heart does not truly desire. This path will always be beset with barriers and difficulties. When you learn that the right path is what is already within your heart, you will find that seeking this only will feel natural. On the right path, what others would see as difficulties appear to you as challenges.

Yet it can be so difficult to determine what the heart truly desires. In attempting to determine this, you will inevitably walk down many paths that turn out to be wrong for you. It's okay. Lesson learned. Now you know. You may have karma to make up or nullify through radical forgiveness, but you will still be better for it.

My path has shown me that if I close off a particular set of possibilities because they are "wrong" in an absolute sense, I thereby shut off my own capacity for free will. I was raised Catholic and found that I had made myself entirely dependent on the religion to tell me which actions are acceptable. Of course, this brought me deeper into imbalance because I did not make the decision on my own. To learn what the heart truly desires, everything must be on the table. All of your desires, no matter how conflicting, must be laid out before you so that you can sift through them and determine which of them represent the most profound impulse within you. Shall we convince ourselves that we do not want to seek power because it is wrong? When has this sort of brainwashing ever produced a morally consistent human being? True morality comes from the heart, not a list of "right" and "wrong" actions. If we are constantly afraid of what we would do in the absence of "right" and "wrong", then we are thereby constantly afraid of our own freedom. A wise ethics would open all pathways, but warn of the repercussions of particular kinds of actions.

And if you are a murderer or a rapist, and it feels good and natural for you, know that you are on the wrong path and you need to change your way.

Let's look at it this way:

Instead of basing everything one does on what is best for their temporary self, begin to think in terms of what is best for the All.

Ask yourself, did the Creator create this being next to me so that I could abuse it and enjoy making it miserable. If your answer is yes, than it is very likely that you are NOT thinking in the mind of the Creator, but in the mind of the self, which is exactly the thing that we should be learning to rise above, and why we cannot evolve further.