Ideas arrive fresh as an ocean breeze. If the mind is the cause of what we experience in our life, then all the circumstances we experience are the effects. Of course, the two are intertwined and together co-create the fierce power of life, which is love, which is presence, and energy, and creativity. How you name it is not important. I do not want to oversimplify or make a platitude. This is a model, a metaphor; and hopefully, it is also a tool.
It is something you can feel behind your own eyes, this freedom, or see it in the eyes of others. You can feel it inside your own heart, and in the words and presence of others. . . . . If you want.
When you stop imagining that anything can oppress you—and you CAN choose to do that—you understand that your only choice is freedom! Freedom is unconditional, not because it has no flavor or particularity (it is as rich and varied as life itself), but because there is nothing that can ever pollute its many flavors. Anything, any situation, can open the door to this freedom if you let it, and where it leads you is as particular as who you are. Unique!
Understand that it is not freedom ‘from’ something. Nor is it freedom ‘toward’ something. It is not permission nor is it the lifting of restrains. It is something altogether beyond those singular functions.
A hawk lifts off the telephone line, and hovers; or a swan flies up from the water, soaring and soaring, until almost out of sight. And a distant galaxy, barely visible with the naked eye on a dark night, does cartwheels across the sky.
--"Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion. But even here if a person is sincere, he will realize that his highest religious experience is nothing more than an uncertain, obscure and faint perception of Truth; whereas, no matter what kind of mystical experience he has, he will feel the intensity, immensity and certainty of Truth." Chinmoy
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