Beliefs from someone else..

 

 

We think we are free

But alas..as long as

Separation and autonomy

Are sown into our 

Cloak of beliefs

We are borrowers

Accumulators

Of beliefs not our own..

Freedom eludes..

Freedom is felt when

It is found that these

Borrowings are also

Expressions of

Indefinable Freedom...

You think you are free, but there probably isn’t a gesture, a thought, an emotion, an attitude, or a belief in you that isn’t coming from someone else. Isn’t that horrible? And you don’t know it. A mechanical life has been stamped into you.

You feel pretty strongly about certain things, and you think it is you who are feeling strongly about them, but are you really? It’s going to take a lot of awareness for you to understand that perhaps this thing you call 'I' is simply a conglomeration of your past experiences, your conditioning, and your programming.

That’s painful. In fact, when you’re beginning to awaken, you experience a great deal of pain. It’s painful to see your illusions being shattered. Everything that you thought you had built up crumbles - and that’s painful.

Anthony de Mello