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October 2009 
Freedom (pt 2)
Posted on Jan 2nd, 2009
by 
Paul Pennell
Paul Pennell
Freedom. It’s what we all seek. Actually. Every great religion teaches that its’ tools offered, provide new opportunity and radical experiences towards it and into it…Freedom. You have to want it so badly that you are willing, literally, to enter inside every part of yourself in order to find it . To face everything. Your weakness. Your fears Your experiences and traumas. Your horrors and yes, your Powers and Strengths. The light . Stop throwing your light onto others. Drink it in yourSelf. The Shadows. Both sides. Within this journey to your most authentic Self you will find Freedom. Fortunately, unfortunately, it’s the process of going within, facing yourSelf and becoming real that you find Freedom. It’s not given to you on a plate when you pray a prayer. It’s not found like a ring under a sofa and you suddenly say AHA!, I found it! It’s not one singular Oprah AHA! moment. It’s a lifetime of personal choices that offer internal respect to your Spirit that releases the hold outside of your own internal castle that says, “You want freedom? You’ve earned it. ” Here, within this space of personal choice through facing everything within, Freedom is launched into your world at warp speed and everything you dreamed of and knew you were and had to offer yourSelf and the planet bows at your feet. And you bring your hands together and gently pull them towards your chest and your heart bows from the waist to itSelf in quiet reverence of who you are and who you’ve become. That’s Freedom. PP
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Despite our “reason,”
which accepts the scientific proofs that we are subject to naturalistic
constraints as other creatures are, our “consciousness” senses freedom.
Without this “meaningless feeling of freedom” life would be
insupportable. All the concepts of our existence express this instinct
for freedom, Tolstoy says: the notions of wealth and poverty, hunger
and repletion, health and disease, are only terms for greater or lesser
degrees of freedom. Our sense of free will can never be reconciled with
the immutable laws of necessity; at best, we conclude that men and
animals share nervous and muscular activity, but man has, in addition,
consciousness.
I got that from YahooEducation. I just read War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy and I have to very much agree with him. But what do you think about what Tolstoy says about it?
“Without this “meaningless feeling of freedom” life would be
insupportable”
The way I see what he says is that Man is content with having the idea that there can be freedom than actually having it. Do you think if we had it, we wouldn’t know what to do with ourselves? What is it that Believers (of religions and spiritual paths) want you to achieve? I don’t know much about different religions. Then, if we have freedom, to then not know what to do with ourselves, why are we willing to give so much for it?
Sorry if any of this sounds as in attack, I don’t mean to sound so aggressive.