Please give this a good thought.
How can one appreciate something when you’re not free to approve or disapprove something.
Is it not so one needs to be free of any interference to appreciate something or not. What is your opinion worth when it is imposed by someone else. Than it is not your opinion, not any longer. Do we agree on this? Can we move on because this is not the point I was trying to make.
I like you to join me to the corner stone of things. I would like you to go to the first thought, the first conviction in our mind. Together we go to that corner stone of thinking, or merely reflecting.
Do you join me?
With the corner stone I mean, when is a thought yours, when is it the thought of someone else which you are repeating at the moment. How does one recognize a thought as original yours and when is it not yours. The aim is obvious. When do you appreciate something for real? When is this 'you' real and when not? Do you understand now what I mean with the corner stone.
When we think or do something, where does the impuls come from; from you or from someone else? Understand this is important, both for you and me. Who am I, what value do I have, when I can’t appreciate something , from within myself. What is my own value worth, if my words and actions are contaminated by someone elses convictions. Aren’t they not preconceived opinions then, prejudices? Am I not than a kind of robot , a copy of someone else.
What if I’m a bunch of convictions of all sorts, which I collected through all those years of my life. What if I didn’t learn to dish it up the truth which are inside me, from my own well. Instead of this we are running around with the thoughts of others.
Can I call this collection of thoughts ‘ME’ : I don’t think so. Still I thought I was ‘me’, till a few minutes ago that was, before I read this text. Is my thinking really thinking than, or is it merely reflecting; I mean thinking over the facts which are already there. A battery of prejudgements slipt already in my mind. I’m too late. They told me already in front how to react when they ask me: Do you like this ? Honest, you can tell me freely what you think of it. What if this ‘me’ is a copy borrowed, a patchwork of convictions collected all over the place?
What is my opinion worth if I took it, borrowed it from my teachers, or parents, or society or world. What is the value, the point of having an opinion what so ever?
Please join me on this short journey, not because you should have an opinion of your own. This is not the question. The question is whether I recognize the opinion ‘I’ have. The question is whether I recognize this opinion as ‘mine’ or not. This is important no. Isn’t that the corner stone.
Everything, every action, each big or small project begins with having a thought about it. But where does that thought come from? Maybe that’s a bridge too far. I jump from concepte to concept maybe a little too fast. The question is simple: recognize the thought as one of yourself so the consequences, the results are at least ‘yours’.
Than they are MY results. Than this 'me' can call ‘I'. Isn’t that the corner stone. Recognize’ME’?
Ok, are you ready?
When can you really appreciate something? Is it not so you can appreciate something when you’re free in your opinion about it? Is it not so, and listen carefully, you ought to be free to appreciate something?
Only in freedom, in total freedom you can bring foreward your idea. Only in freedom, in total freedom you can do something and tell it is yours. Only in total freedom you can act, act with honour and in full conscience …not to the conscience of someone else…who ever.
Understand what freedom is. Freedom is the corner stone. All stands or dies with total freedom. Understand what that means : people calling Earth, this world, 'the planet of free will'. What does that mean?
It means that if you are not totally free you cannot act, not act to your judgement. Look at any voluntary action. Can you really tell yourself, you acted in total freedom. Is this what you wanted to do? Did you remove every interference, waved it off, disgarded it, let got off? Only in those circumstances you do what ‘you’ wanted. Only than you took from your own well. That is the corner stone I meant.
Do you get the consequences? They are gigantic:
Only in freedom you can act.
Only than you can listen. Before that you heard no-one, because first, it’s wasn’t a ‘you’, second, because you didn’t want to listen. You were angry and ennoyed, because you weren’t free. Inside you somewhere, you were rebellious because there was something in you what was not allowed to be there . What wasn’t allowed: your opinion, your idea , your thought, YOU.
A part of you wasn’t allowed to be. A part of you wasn’t you yet and that was not ok. You must be ‘you’ to be able to be you. This is an almost impossible phrase and still this is true.
As long as you are not complete you, you are not complete. And as long as you are not complete, you cannot act to the full.
Only in total freedom you can act. The rest are copies of copies of copies up till Adam and Eve.
Be afraid when you are afraid, not because you ought to be afraid. Decide for yourself.
By the way; how can you decide for yourself when you are not totally you? Whose decisions are you executing at that very moment?
Do you understand the corner stone.
Dig from your own well, than it is your own life.
You want to argue this is pure egoïsm? This is further away from egoïsm as the distance between the sun and the earth.
Can you free someone if you’re not free first?
Aren’t you enchained by the other person and he to you when you are not free?
Egoïsm is like two prisoners locked by the same chain because they shouldn’t escape. The first prisoner wants to go this way , the other wants to go that way. None of both are free and so they are obliged by law and chain to force each other, to walk the same direction. This is the correct definition of egoïsm.
Only in freedom you can give freedom, and this is the definition of altruïsm. Only when you are free you can set someone free. Only when you set someone free, you are free. Recognize your own freedom.
Give freedom so you can be free yourself.
Be sincerely and truly free.