Hello Readers,
The most important kind of freedom is to be yourself and what you really are. Some birds are not meant to be caged, so let them go and let them spread their wings and fly. Their freedom is not yours to take.
Never let any net ensnare you because you are a free person with an independent will and a mind of your own. You have a right to make your own decisions and choices. You don’t need the approval of others in order to live and be the magnificent person you are. When a person is denied the right to live the life they believe in, they become rebellious and start living like an outlaw. Feeling trapped , encased and incarcerated is one of the worst prisons anyone can find themselves in. When all freedom, choices and liberties are denied us, this is when rebellion and the fight to break free of the shackles and chains that hold us back begins. Expose yourself to your deepest fear and after that fear has no power. It’s then that the fear of losing your freedom shrinks and vanishes, thus setting you free. Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner for the rest of your life.
You are a flying bird, not a caged bird.
“Let me tell you a Secret;
We are not imprisoned by houses or bodies,
Not even by other people.
We are spirits
Free as the wind
It’s a secret not everyone knows.
I have seen people throw themselves down and worship their own freedom.
Like slaves before a tyrant
Praising him though he slays them.
I have seen the freest among them
Wear their freedom as a handcuff.
And my heart bled within me
For you can only be free when you no longer speak of freedom as a goal.
And how can you be free
Unless you break the chains
You have fastened around yourself?
In truth, that which you call freedom
is the strongest of these chains
Though it links glitter in the sun.
And to become free,
what would you remove that is not a part of yourself?
If it’s a tyrant, His throne was built within you.
If it’s a care you would cast off,
That care has been chosen by you.
And if it’s a fear you would drive away
The root of that fear is in your heart.
And not in the hand of the feared.
These things move within you
As lights and shadows in constant half embrace.
You will be free indeed
Not when your days are without care
Nor your rights without grief.
But rather when these things bind up your life
And yet you rise above them.
Unbound…”
-Khalil Gibran
The truth will set you free, but not until it’s finished with you.
Love and Light,
Linda and The Lulas xxx
