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Old 24-08-2012, 02:39 PM
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Why is it that so few people are truly free?
Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
They try to concentrate their way to heaven.

But freedom is about the natural state, the spontaneous and un-selfconscious expression of beingness.
If you want to find it, see that the very idea of "a someone who is in control" is a concept created by the mind.

Take one step backward into the unknown.


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Freedom is never freedom "from."
If it's freedom "from" anything, it's not freedom at all.
It's freedom "to."

Are you free enough to be afraid?
Are you free enough to feel insecure?
Are you free enough not to know?
Are you free enough to know that you can’t know?

Are you free enough to be totally comfortable,
to know that you can't know what's around the next corner?
How you will feel about it?
How you will respond to it?
That you literally can't know?

Are you free enough to be totally at ease and comfort with the way things actually are?
That's freedom.


— Adyashanti
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Old 24-08-2012, 02:59 PM
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Greetings..

Are you free enough to 'let go' of everything, absolutely everything.. everything that you 'know', that you believe.. are you willing to see the universe for the first time, again..

Be well..
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Old 24-08-2012, 03:19 PM
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Old 01-09-2012, 12:11 PM
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As I walked out the door toward my freedom,
I knew that if I did not leave all the anger, hatred and bitterness behind,
I would still be in prison

~Nelson Mandela~

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Old 04-09-2012, 03:09 PM
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Old 07-09-2012, 01:27 PM
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Your conscious mind tells you where you are in time and space,
and directs your activity in a world of human action.
That world has its own kind of rich complication,
that is as unknown to the animals,
as their acute realization is unknown to you.

~Seth-Jane Roberts~





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Old 07-09-2012, 02:09 PM
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Really like this picture...whenever I see tree roots uplift concrete it makes me smile! The power of nature is awesome and triumphant.

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Old 07-09-2012, 02:14 PM
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It truly is remarkable isnt it ... we need a Jack-hammer to do the same thing ....
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Old 09-09-2012, 12:03 AM
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“Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated
Of dead and living. Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment”
~ T.S. Eliot “Four Quartets”

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Old 09-09-2012, 11:06 AM
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'A lifetime burning in every moment' ... powerful words gem :)
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