The ideal life for most people is one filled to the brim with choices – one in which everything is chosen by the individual – nothing imposed. Such a life, which nowadays requires a hefty income, has the appearance of freedom, but as anyone with a bit of spirit knows, it comes at great cost, and that cost is spirit. Freedom of choice, far from empowering the individual, actually drains her of spirit and energy because it delays, if only for a fraction of a second, the decision making, and it always leaves a feeling of doubt 'If only I'd made the other choice.' It forces anxiety upon the chooser so that strangely the more practice a person has at choosing the more indecisive they seem to get, which then robs their actions of any power, and life just becomes a never-ending series of weak arbitrary choices directed by nothing more substantial that personal preference. A spirited person lives as if there is no choice, and if choices do present themselves the last thing they'll do is deliberate, weigh the options and then make the 'best choice.' They know that the only choice they really have is to live with spirit or not, and acts made with spirit always have the power to transform. So the quality of a decision (action) is determined by the spirit in which it was made, and not by what is decided.