Humanity prides itself in its achievements in technology, knowledge and culture. It sees itself as the pinnacle of both biological and physical evolution.
And yet where are we really? We have replaced the struggle for survival with the struggle for materialistic achievement.
We live in a time and place of such vast and plentiful possibilities. For all the negativism concerning the western world it has given us back some of the possibility of shaping our own destiny. You have inconceivable amounts of information at the end of your finger tips. You have an incredible amount of pathways you can choose from in your life. Restrictions and boundaries have fallen away. However one thing has always stayed with us over the whole time of social and economical changes and upheavals. Human depravity and ignorance are as consistent as ever and are reflected in the reasons for the financial crisis and other catastrophes such as the Iraq conflict.
And nobody should fool themselves that freedom is really theirs as the for instance American government loves to profess. It is far too important for powerful economical entities to control the multitude that we are. It may seem to some that we live in freedom, but needing credit cards to pay for airplane tickets, bank accounts to earn money, loans to study and credit checks to even get a phone line paint a very different picture. Where is freedom really when governments can detain so called suspects without reason or evidence for more than even a minute? Politicians may say that terrorists are attacking our freedom with their bombs, but so are the politician’s new laws. The thing that should worry anybody is that few people realise that more and more people are losing the rights they would so vigorously have defended were there no enemy that seems to be lurking just around every corner. Whether true social, economical freedom is really possible is more than debatable. And yet the accepting nature of people around the world to these cutting changes, their fear of the enemy that supposedly wants to destroy them personally is the real issue at hand.
All that this situation portrays in reality is the inherent lack of freedom that is found in every human society. And yet every person in our society imposes this prison upon themselves. We chose to live in a world where we want the newest computer, the bigger TV, the cooler refrigerator and the nicer car. We haven’t gained freedom from the struggle of survival over our millions of years of evolution. We have merely transferred the shackles of this struggle for survival from the need to produce food and keep warm to the need of social acceptance, of becoming rich and of escaping the fear of having to face the image of our own true self.
Every day, your thoughts revolve around all these worldly matters, the objectively seen inconsequential and superficial issues in life. Have you ever taken time off from this hustling and bustling rush of ever changing demands upon your intellect to turn it towards a real sense of self exploration? All our lives we sail on the rough and choppy seas of our mind without having a true peek below the crashing waves.
That is where true freedom is to be found. When one lives from the indestructible foundations of true understanding. When one stands stabily in the stormy ocean of life and sees the many million opportunities that every day offers, especially in a time of curtailed freedom but endless choice. When this happens one does not have to abide by so many unconsciously imposed rules on our life. One can chose to aim for the stars. One can decide to grasp for most ridiculous seeming goal and still achieve it. The limits one’s own thoughts and social conditioning set are the only inhibitions for the great mind that inside all of us. Dare to dream and bridge the chasm of opportunity. Stop procrastinating and take action. Be responsible for your choices, your goals and your life. Do it NOW.
…and once you’ve set yourself in motion, instead of consistently flooding your intelligence with mind numbing consumer products and information, take some time out to explore what only few in the world have experienced. Your self, the world inside you and the world around you. Open your eyes and play the main role in your own life.
And yet where are we really? We have replaced the struggle for survival with the struggle for materialistic achievement.
We live in a time and place of such vast and plentiful possibilities. For all the negativism concerning the western world it has given us back some of the possibility of shaping our own destiny. You have inconceivable amounts of information at the end of your finger tips. You have an incredible amount of pathways you can choose from in your life. Restrictions and boundaries have fallen away. However one thing has always stayed with us over the whole time of social and economical changes and upheavals. Human depravity and ignorance are as consistent as ever and are reflected in the reasons for the financial crisis and other catastrophes such as the Iraq conflict.
And nobody should fool themselves that freedom is really theirs as the for instance American government loves to profess. It is far too important for powerful economical entities to control the multitude that we are. It may seem to some that we live in freedom, but needing credit cards to pay for airplane tickets, bank accounts to earn money, loans to study and credit checks to even get a phone line paint a very different picture. Where is freedom really when governments can detain so called suspects without reason or evidence for more than even a minute? Politicians may say that terrorists are attacking our freedom with their bombs, but so are the politician’s new laws. The thing that should worry anybody is that few people realise that more and more people are losing the rights they would so vigorously have defended were there no enemy that seems to be lurking just around every corner. Whether true social, economical freedom is really possible is more than debatable. And yet the accepting nature of people around the world to these cutting changes, their fear of the enemy that supposedly wants to destroy them personally is the real issue at hand.
All that this situation portrays in reality is the inherent lack of freedom that is found in every human society. And yet every person in our society imposes this prison upon themselves. We chose to live in a world where we want the newest computer, the bigger TV, the cooler refrigerator and the nicer car. We haven’t gained freedom from the struggle of survival over our millions of years of evolution. We have merely transferred the shackles of this struggle for survival from the need to produce food and keep warm to the need of social acceptance, of becoming rich and of escaping the fear of having to face the image of our own true self.
Every day, your thoughts revolve around all these worldly matters, the objectively seen inconsequential and superficial issues in life. Have you ever taken time off from this hustling and bustling rush of ever changing demands upon your intellect to turn it towards a real sense of self exploration? All our lives we sail on the rough and choppy seas of our mind without having a true peek below the crashing waves.
That is where true freedom is to be found. When one lives from the indestructible foundations of true understanding. When one stands stabily in the stormy ocean of life and sees the many million opportunities that every day offers, especially in a time of curtailed freedom but endless choice. When this happens one does not have to abide by so many unconsciously imposed rules on our life. One can chose to aim for the stars. One can decide to grasp for most ridiculous seeming goal and still achieve it. The limits one’s own thoughts and social conditioning set are the only inhibitions for the great mind that inside all of us. Dare to dream and bridge the chasm of opportunity. Stop procrastinating and take action. Be responsible for your choices, your goals and your life. Do it NOW.
…and once you’ve set yourself in motion, instead of consistently flooding your intelligence with mind numbing consumer products and information, take some time out to explore what only few in the world have experienced. Your self, the world inside you and the world around you. Open your eyes and play the main role in your own life.
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