A person last night commented saying that his home is where he can find total freedom.
Is this true? Or some of us just delude themselves into believing that their home is the place where they are living they absolute freedom because there are no restrictions beyond the mental ones, such as worries, or fierce self-criticism for example, or forever ruminating on the past or all-consuming anxiety about the future.
I believe freedom is much more than that; a very good point is that we can be free everywhere when our mind is free; when we have reached the faith (or trust) that everything that happens to us in life has a meaning that is simply condensed in our spiritual development; and we live this life as an invaluable gift, and we draw from it, free and grateful, our very essence which is expressed with equal freedom in the vulnerability or our fragile human condition, even there when, in emotional suffering, we obsessively seek and dig deep to still feel immense gratitude for the intrinsic worth of our being; there, where its lightness became unbearable (in the words of a great man) due to its feeling and throbbing of emotions that flow, like velvet in the net of space and time where everything is relative; and it is there, in the freedom of our mind and in the silence in which we accept the present as the only valid eternal reality, that we, free beings, exist and bow our heads to God.
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