Freedom is a very interesting word! We all want freedom! Our spirits yearn for freedom and our bodies crave freedom as well. But what really is freedom? You see somebody drive an expensive Cadillac to work while you are driving an old junker that you’re still making payments on. You drive past nice homes while you’re living in public housing and you feel angry! It’s not fair! But what does that have to do with freedom?
It’s not right to say that you want to be free of your old junker and you want to be free of your apartment. Is it right to say that you want the freedom to have a Cadillac and the freedom to have a nice home? Not really, you don’t want the freedom to have those things. What you really want is to have them! There’s a big difference!
When you look deeply into this you will find that we are not free and can never be free. We are the prisoners of our own thoughts, beliefs, actions and attitudes. Possessing or achieving something will not bring freedom because as soon as we achieve it or attain it we go on to the next thing that we want to achieve or attain. That is a never ending cycle!
Is it the right to do or say anything that you want without consequences? There are always consequences for everything that we do or say. They can be good consequences and they can be bad consequences. But there are always consequences. Reality demands consequences!
Perhaps freedom is the right to change? The right to change our mind. The right to change what we believe. The right to change how we live.
There are infinite possibilities within the present moment and each possibility will take us to a different place. Freedom only exists within the present moment and it only exists when we are able to recognize it for what it really is! The freedom to choose!
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