If you are free because they released you from your cell, you are still a prisoner.
If you are awake because the sun shines, you are still asleep.
If you know something because they taught it to you, you are ignorant.
And if you are alive merely because you were born, you have never lived.
What is missing? You are missing.
Where is your you?
What do we live in this world for?
What is the purpose of our life?
We are controlled by our addiction to pleasure while avoiding harm. This is how we kill time in this world.
We live to break free from this automated, animalistic life to develop into a higher form of existence. Then we reach our 'root' which is to have the same properties, qualities sensations understanding and perception like our Creator.
We are all endowed with a spark of the Creator within. This spark will develop in us to reform our nature. We can accelerate this development with an authentic teacher who guides us to invoke the light to develop us through trying to feel the spiritual network of connections between us. Then we can gradually become aware of a higher life.
Otherwise we will rise through challenging pressures to understand how to live as a whole eternal human network all inclusive and in harmony. We are awake! We understand a new world, new perceptions and new sensations. We know our true self!
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So true! Freeing one self is seing the light in its brightest and still, we are bound by our bodies, but seeing the infinity of the free soul is just very humbling and amazing yet the more freedom the more responsibility. As knowledge and awareness grows, the more bound we are to share the light with others and lead by example. Light attracts light.
Bless you
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The times when I feel most alive are when I am facing a serious problem or danger. When life becomes easy without much pressure to get things done there is a tendency to be less active and not to be able to claim that one is living a full life.
Ken ken! Me too. Challenges in life even when they're emotionally painful can and will bring out the best in us.