19 The Price of Freedom Is To Allow Others To Be Free

Chapter 8 Lessons for the Soul 1

The soul knows that all learning takes place in duality, it knows that in order to learn to accept, it must go through rejection, so the soul will be very careful to write its script before you reincarnate.

It is wise to examine the story of your life carefully, to examine the script carefully: what your life situation is going to reveal to you, what you are coming here to learn, what you are coming here to heal... It's not too late, life is your teacher.

If you are here to learn and experience joy, then your soul will create some degree of suffering in your life, you don't need to linger in pain, all you have to do is to accept and experience this pain, and pain will reveal its secrets for you, then you will be liberated from suffering and enter into joy.

Don't cling to positive feelings and criticize or deny negative feelings, just relax and accept the opposites of duality. They will create balance in your life and send you to the central point.

You can love because you are love. However, if you get too involved in the object of your love, you will forget who you are and get lost in the object of love.

You can't find your own wholeness outside of yourself, that's impossible. The source of love cannot be found outside of yourself, and love that belongs to the level of the mind will one day decay.

When you are in the present moment, you are love, and within yourself, you are complete.

If you retain love or have a discriminating mind when it comes to sharing love (some of which you love and others you ignore), then you give the pure love that is present to you, your essence, to the mind to use. You bring love into the world of duality, and you invite hate into your life to be with love.

Almost all of the choices and decisions we make at the level of the mind are driven by fear. Decisions driven by fear will make you more and more caught up in the world of the illusionary mind, don't let fear lead you astray, find inner stability and silence, love is there.

When you don't declare that others aren't responsible for you, you can't declare that you're not responsible for others. You have to completely let go of your expectations of others, which means you don't blame anyone when things don't go their way. When you can't get what you want, don't blame anyone, you take responsibility for yourself.

The price of freedom is to allow others to be free. For most of us, the price is too high.

True responsibility has four aspects:

1 You must respond to the present moment in real time, and you can respond spontaneously no matter what arises in the moment.

2 Take full responsibility for your emotional responses. Your emotional reactions are based entirely on your current situation or past experiences, and have little to do with what is happening in the present moment.

3 Take responsibility and know what you want. What you want is present, real, arises from this moment, has nothing to do with the future.

4 Take responsibility for your own awakening, and in every moment you are responsible for whether you are present or not. Your ultimate responsibility is to be freed from the cage of the world of the mind and awaken in the present moment, and you need to remember this responsibility in every moment.

Author: Lear Jacquesson, this book tells how to quiet the mind, keep full presence, and realize the reality of life. (The book is out of print)