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Efficient-Yellow4990 t1_iw8li9l wrote

The philosophy of being completely free -in both mind and body- I believe that the first step to such freedom is honesty.

It is quite apparent that the majority of humans living today are not free.  

They are more or less slaves, chasing after their thoughts. Society has conditioned their minds from a young age; their reality becomes set under something not made to aid their true nature, creating an ill mindset that tortures them daily, 24 hours a day.  

If one stops pretending, one can truly see that we know nothing. We have a collective and complete amnesia about everything.  

Our bodies know. We know. Jet, Why can't we remember?  

A thousand years ago, an individual had more freedom than a person living in today's society.  

We live in an enormous body structured like an ant's nest.  

Everything that is different will be viewed as abnormal. This affects a person's ability to be themselves.  

Back in the day, one could simply walk out of his village and live his life as someone completely different. His tribe doesn't reach the entire globe.  

There was no Internet for minds to intertwine.  

But since we live here, in the now,  

We must find a away to be.  

My philosophy of being truly free starts off by being completely honest.  

Honesty is a fundamental factor for trueness to spread.  

"What is real will prosper."  

The truth is a compass that guides us to itself.  

Now, understand that freedom is of great value, much more valuable than all the gold and silver in the world.   

And freedom requires strength. not physical strength but mental strength.  

The ability to walk away from the crowd and start one's own path becomes a key factor.  

That is why I love the misfits and the outcasts. Those who do not belong to society, jet remain pure in their truth.  

Sometimes I see God's intentions. It is a blessing to be born with the ability to think for oneself.  

A man one day awakens and looks around; the only thing he sees is that everyone else is still asleep.  

There is an unimaginable amount of effort involved in swimming against the flow of the crowd. And at the same time, it is one of the easiest things to do, like being honest.  

These things are just what they are, so all it takes for them to be is to just be. as simple as that.  

One needs to know oneself. Recognize the way one thinks. Question why he thinks the way he does and why he moves the way he does—everything comes together in one single unit.  

I heard that love is a mathematical principle. The digit 1 contains all other numbers. If 0 is a representation of nothingness,  

How can there ever be anything except that nothing is not simply no-thing but rather a thing that will become something.  

1 contains 2 just like they both are contained in 3.  

2 is just 1 split into two. and three, the one containing 1 and 2.  

2 can be one, 1 can be two, and both together will always be three. And when they all collapse into one, only one mass of energy is left.  

So everything comes back to oneself. And I am always left with the question, while being conscious, what consciousness is. Who am I? What am I?  

Why am I here?   I breathe. I think. I feel. I am just being me. existing as one. asking and searching.  

There is so much more.  

And my philosophy for all this is honesty, because it brings everything right back to oneself. It is simply what it is.  

The truth is simply what it is. Like water, it is clear and see-through. The words written all over the place creating our form and detailing the information.   Honesty is the key to freedom.      

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Intelligent_Big_8191 t1_iwbg0kh wrote

Nice essay! We live in a globalised village is possibly one way of reconciling being free now or saying in Daniel Kahneman words, ‘Thinking fast snd slow’, when compared with living in a village thousand years back . Mankind could have progressed over many issues over man generations which every man who thinks faces again and again, but he can’t go to the root of all the issues and find a solution, and he possibly is not encouraged by his possibly ignorant or wise society not that they want to make him stop from progressing, but also possibly could be from not becoming another Socrates questioning and trying to inspire his generation or society but failing in a way to live the personal life well and facing a questionable death; who will take care of his family ? The past history may not be as sweet as the present experiences and kindling may only bring out a recurrent unwanted phenomenon or experience; the individual soul could undergo the torture in its search but not the other souls associated that has helped it for a cause of living or has their own dreams .

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