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We imprison ourselves

Posted on by philipdodson

We build a life through our own imagined self-image and imprison ourselves in it. We stay stuck in jobs, with friends, with partners and so on, fearing to break free, fearing to upset, fearing to be our true selves. We go against our true self, we resist it, we allow ourselves to be trapped in our self-created imaginary life.

We become attached to things and people, and even when we instinctively want to do something or get rid of something, we stay trapped in the attachment we have built. We do not accept that every form is temporary and we are flowing on a journey. Not everything has to be there forever, we can move on from things, people, jobs and so on.

Freedom is being truly ourselves and not being attached or dependent on things or others.

Different

Posted on by philipdodson

We can choose to accept that people are uniquely different and there is no need to judge them or form opinions of them. Be at peace with it.

Or, we can spend a lifetime of suffering frustration, anger, hate, jealousy, annoyance, and so on, because they have a different view, language, opinion, they do things another way to us, they eat, dress, speak, look different. They do not fit into our conditioning of the world, or lens does not allow us to see the good in them. We are never at peace.

Different is exactly that, different, there is not a right or wrong, we are all unique souls and if we allow that to be, if we embrace others as what they are, then we will have a life of peace.