The Components of Any Choice

Last updated Aug 15, 2023

• Source: Pierre Wolff
• Keywords: Cards/permanent notes
  • #religion #spirituality
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  • Cards/Discernment

Your second required reading will introduce you to the basics of discernment and the tools you will need to carry it out.

In this reading taken from his book Discernment: The Art of Choosing Well, Wolff introduces us to the tools we need to discern properly and he explains the place of God in the act of discernment.

• What are the tools for discernment that Wolff presents?
  • The framework: time
    • “The more important the problem, the more time we ask of ourselves or others for decision making.”
  • The tools: head and heart
    • Head: reflecting on the situation, looking for information, weighing pros and cons, foreseeing the consequences
    • Heart: verifies whetehr or not the possible solution appeals to us
    • “We screen with our heart what we discover with our head in order to make a decision that is ours and one we can confirm subjectively”
  • The cornerstone: values
• Why is discernment considered to be a “method”?
• What does faith in God have to do with the act of discernment?

Discernment is a process that allows a person to see, without confusion and ambuigity, what diffrentiates things…Choosing requires discriminating…The better our discernment, the clearer our choices.

No responsible choice exists without inner freedom.

• The importance of addressing our Cards/Disordered attachments