I don't see how I can be. I'm on advanced medication that I need to preserve my life, so there is no way to be free this lifetime. Being free, in my opinion, means that you have the right and the ability to leave wherever you are whenever you want. You have a choice of how to live and the ease of dismissing that choice if you really want to. I'm bound to my society and it's current technological level due to a medical condition.
I also feel that being free means that you can survive if the world gets thrown back into the Dark Ages. It means that you are not constrained mentally or physically.
Mentally, I'm not constrained or bound. Physically, I am. I gave up a certain degree of physical freedom to prolong my life, but I did it of my own free will. But that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.
You MUST read "The Four Agreements". It's a hard path to live by, but it does guide the way to freedom of thought, including the avoidance of guilt triggers.
Speaking of "The Four Agreements", I have to reread it fairly soon. It's means breaking the old agreements that you have made in order to conform to society and forging new agreements within yourself. It will show you how words are potent spells that act upon the psyche. But it will also teach you to give up the chaining thoughts and words of others by taking neither complement nor criticism to heart.
As I said, it's a hard road to hoe. But even reading it once can help heal some old wounds.
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Date: 2006-01-23 04:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-23 08:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-23 09:05 pm (UTC)I also feel that being free means that you can survive if the world gets thrown back into the Dark Ages. It means that you are not constrained mentally or physically.
Mentally, I'm not constrained or bound. Physically, I am. I gave up a certain degree of physical freedom to prolong my life, but I did it of my own free will. But that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.
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Date: 2006-01-23 09:20 pm (UTC)I would...
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Date: 2006-01-24 06:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-24 06:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-24 06:29 pm (UTC)As I said, it's a hard road to hoe. But even reading it once can help heal some old wounds.
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Date: 2006-01-24 06:31 pm (UTC)This is what happens when you rearrange your word order and don't proofread before hitting "reply" by reflex. ^__^
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Date: 2006-01-24 06:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-24 06:47 pm (UTC)