Freedom. Freedom. Freedom. Simply a word. Say it again and hear out the syllables and sound them out. Just a word. What is it? My thoughts about its definition : its a release of slavery. Slavery is not something the nazi's did to old europe, or what happened to the Israelites under the rule of egypt. Slavery is something you are willing to be a slave to. What you do attests to what you believe. What another one forces onto your own nature does not make you willing, but does not make you the master anymore of your body, which is then their responsibility. But what I mean by slavery is the kind of slavery you give yourself to. This "habit" or whatever it is is eventually realized to be unbalancing something in yourself, but its hard to target the source of your blindness when it has taken your eyes. The unbalance is intoxicating, and leaves a sense of feeling lost and unaware. Leaves room for the excuse of ignorance so the problem persists as long as it can.
Freedom means nothing without something to be free of. What does freedom mean to you? Freedom of pain? Freedom of your boyfriend? A feeling? A thing? An emotion? A obligation? A concept?
At the heart of all these ideas is its roots in fear. We have a lot of fear about everything we can imagine. Where it is not? Fear is to be cast out of alignment of your space. Fear is fixed in the identity. Its to usurp anothers strength by means to help them, which is entirely not possible. For you cannot enslave another without them giving their will.
Fear is left to the embrace of the perceiver. If the subject was understood completely, it would not surpass them and therefore would be nothing to fear. It would trouble them, but then they would come to own the subject itself and banish the fear which kept them from crossing the street in the first place.
This is why I left some of my earlier roots, but if i hadn't, I would have been lost in my insecurities in the world around me which all at the same time seemed to oppose me, which is entirely untrue.
To close, I must mention this verse from the gospel of thomas - one of my favorite books.
(2) Jesus said, "Let him who seeks continue to seek until he finds. When he finds, he will become troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished, and he will come to rule over the all."
