As I sat in quiet with the 9/8/13 Awakening Together Daily Quote, I opened to this clarity within myself: What is freedom? It is a sense of being free. It is being in love, enjoyment and wonderment of each moment. It is constant appreciation. It could be called ecstasy or bliss. It is a way of being with experience. It has compassion, but it is never tied down with the burden of worry. It is eternally free. Is freedom possible? Yes, easily possible. It is a way of being quiet in the heart, a way of being with each moment and each circumstance without judgment or fantasy. Freedom is simple and requires nothing. Lack of freedom, which is never true, is complicated and requires a mental web of complex ideas, like a circuitry that energy flows through as distraction and stress. How does one remain free when the circuitry of ideas has a magnetic pull? One remembers the desire for freedom with a greater magnet, which is the heart. Is remembering enough? When remembering is mental it is not enough. Mental remembering can keep one caught up in the circuitry by thinking about what is wanted. Non-mental awareness is true remembering; it shifts one from the circuitry of ideas to immediate freedom. Freedom is stepping out of ideas completely, like stepping out of a dark shed into the fresh air and sunlight. Freedom comes from walking out of the door, not from lingering inside ideas. Step across the threshold into the immediate present now.
Posted on: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:23:16 +0000
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