Freedom in the Moment

The gift of conscious living can only be experienced by being present in the moment.

Consciously coming back to the current and eternal moment of now allows you to be free. There are no ties to the past and the weight and pain that reside in it as the past no longer exists in the present. There is no worry for the future either as it too does not exist as it has not occured and so all that remains is now. Right now.

This moment is a gift wherin all pain and guilt cannot exists because they only exist in a moment that has passed. Similarly fear cannot live as it concerns things that do not exist now. And though they may exist in some future "now" they have not come to pass and so they are not real.

All that is real is right now. And right now freedom exists, peace exists and stillness exists. In this moment you can be peaceful and still and whole if only you would choose it. In this moment your choice is your experience. In this moment you are truly free.

Love Never Leaves

Love surrounds us always. It is in the gentle and the rough. In the brilliance of light and the coolness of shadows.

Love never leaves us and is always waiting to escort us to grace. Love is a confidant, a friend, a lover and a parent.

Love keeps us in it's embrace and when we feel most alone and the woes of this world weigh heavy on us love gently reminds us that we are never alone. For in love there is companionship and that love is always within our hearts.

Looking With Many Eyes

Perspective is a healing gift. To see things from a multitude of angles is an ability that we all have to create strength from pain.

No thing is absolute- all black or all white. Each experience has shades of joy and pain, laughter and sorrow, peace and distress.

Each action has motivations of love and fear and when we can see each component as it truly is our understanding grows. So, we can be compassionate in the face of injury and loving in the face of rage.

It is only by seeing through many eyes that we can be always loving and still for then we can see that life always spirngs from the remnants of death and when all other emotions are stripped bare only love remains.

It's Good to Be (Back)

I took a two week sabbatical from blogging but I'm certainly glad to be back. I hope you enjoy the refreshment and renewal of my writing as much as I have.

With love,

The Sage

On Passionate Work

Passion is the fuel that keeps joy alive. When you are passionate you find joy in the simplest tasks and the most arbitrary things.

Passion drives you to work more effectively and it makes work's burden light. Passion makes your days meaningful. It gives you the drive to achieve and satisfaction in your endeavours.

So seek to do the things that you are passionate about. In this way you will find rewards far greater than a pay cheque or praise. In this way you will find joy in every day.

On Overcoming Fear

Fear is the enemy of success. It boasts in procrastination and revels in our failures.

When we strive to move forward it pulls us back. When we dream of greatness it tells us we will fail.

We must be strong to make fear weak. We must fight it's inertia and act when it tells us to wait.

For to overcome fear we must take action. We must run when it says walk, leap when it says halt. When we act regardless of fear's grip we overcome it. In this way we become free.

Freedom Within, Freedom Without

First we sought physical freedom. We sought to release the chains of bondage and serfdom. When we found our bodies were free we were not satisfied and so we looked to our minds.

We sought freedom of speech and thought. We sought to give every person a voice. When we found our minds were free then we were still not satisfied so we looked at our governments.

We sought political freedom, rights and democracy. We sought to be free politically and economically. We have found our politics are now free but we are not.

The mistake we have continued to make is that we have continued to look for freedom outside ourselves, outside our own minds. Freedom is a state of mind. A man could be confined to a cell and if his mind is free then so is he.

Yet most of us live without experiencing this freedom because we expect it to come from our political system or our economy or our employers. This cannot be.

Freedom must begin within by letting go of all rules, systems and the opinions of others. When we can just be authentically who we are, that is freedom.

So, seek to be free where none can imprison, enslave or bankrupt you. Seek freedom within your mind and you will find you are free everywhere else.