The Man Who Knew Freedom
He knew how to fly high. He knew how to become limitless and abundant. But there were consequences. He welcomed the good and the bad, because there was simply no other way. It was everything or nothing, and nothing meant death. He wanted pure life, pure breath, and pure love. Afraid of monotony, he pursued diversity—variety was the spice of life. He longed for the full color range, no compromise. He didn’t travel to move but to expand himself, to stretch his mind and spirit so that he could understand God better.
Reality, in its material dimension, serves merely as a conduit to expanded spirituality. Reality is there to challenge us and to delight us. It is the apple hanging in the tree of the Garden of Eden. Sex is the physical expression of union, but it is our emotional openness that deepens it into a spiritual experience. We don't build a house for shelter. We build it to have a home. A home that offers space — for being, for feeling, for becoming. Familiarity and a sense of security are required for our mind to retreat and give space for our connection to establish.
Traveling really moves us. No matter where we go, if we surrender to the place, it will embrace us — with all its beauty and ugliness — and it will change us. But we have to become a piece of clay and let it mold us, and it's only after a while that we can reflect back and realize how it has shaped us for better or for worse.
The question then is, where should we go? But there is no answer. Everywhere and nowhere. It is not the place that matters, but the going. The active movement will enable the change. Just don't stand still. Always keep the movement going. Do not hurry. Do not rest. The body will always know first what it needs.
The older we get, the more reality begins to disappoint. But we need to be a part of this world. Escaping in sex, music, nature, and drugs is just part of being human. And it's not an escape. It's a counter-movement to the daily battle and delight of the material world. Everything is the truth. Both life and death are two counterparts of the same truth, and we get to choose which one becomes our daily mantra. A job can become a work experiment and an exercise in surrender. Stop chasing meaning in that external world of money and business, and instead orient your energy towards a more internal pursuit of purpose. How can your job become a conduit to something greater than you? The job is not going to give you what you need, but it can provide the time and resources for you to get what you need. But it will come through you, not through your job. Every material pursuit becomes a conduit for that higher self. We need that connection with the material dimension as much as we need love in our life.
To be free is not to escape the material, but to walk through it, awake.