You are free to explore a completely different way of living and
seeing. You are free to meet the wholeness of life and put aside your
fear. You don’t need to think as others think, or live as others want
you to live. Be free, and life will unfold in ways you could never have
imagined.
Don’t be afraid that you might not
succeed. Failure and success exist only in imagination. Act from love,
and your actions will be their own fulfilment, their own reward. Allow
yourself the freedom to draw breath and simply be.
You do not need riches to live a rich life. Nor do you need status, for
it is based on empty comparisons. Appreciate the wealth you have – your
health, your loved ones, the miracle of being alive. Be free of the
habitual desire for ‘more’.
Don’t limit your thinking with beliefs. You believe because you want to
be certain, but letting go of certainty gives you freedom to discover
the new. Look beyond the boundaries of knowledge, for it is only a
trace of what has been and gone. The nets of knowledge and belief
cannot catch the ocean of life.
You are free to question what others have said, even in books that are
held to be sacred. Understanding comes through learning and insight,
through compassion, through seeing beyond self-interest – not through
the repetition of words. Learn from everyone you meet, from everything
you experience. The greatness of life cannot be folded between the
pages of a book.
In relationship, be free of divisions between ‘us’ and ‘them’. Whatever
our nationality, race or religion, each of us shares a common humanity.
Similarly, question the lines you draw between ‘mine’ and ‘not mine’,
‘me’ and ‘you’. Your life is all that you see and touch, and everything
you say and do makes a difference in the world.
We share responsibility for the world, with its conflicts and its
promise of freedom. Inquire deeply, so that through self-awareness you
end the confusion from which conflict arises. Question the way you are
living now, and have the courage to follow your heart. The more we are
free in our own lives, the greater the freedom we endow to our
families, to our communities, and so to all humanity.
© Martin Hawes and Steve Ruben 2006
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