You were born with an innate knowledge that you do create your own mind.
And, in fact, that knowledge is so basic within you that when someone
attempts to thwart your own creation, you feel an immediate discord within yourself.
You were born knowing that you are the creator of your own reality, and although
that desire to do so pulsed within you in a powerful way,
when you began to integrate into your society, you began to accept
much of the same picture that others held of the way your life should unfold.
But still, within you today lives the knowledge that you are
the creator of your own life experience, that absolute freedom
exists as the basis of your true experience, and that ultimately the creation of your life
experience is absolutely and only up to you.
You have never enjoyed someone else telling you what to do.
You have never enjoyed being dissuaded from your own powerful impulses.
But over time, with enough pressure from those who surrounded you
who seemed convinced that their practiced way was more valid
than your way (and, therefore, ultimately better), you gradually began
to release your determination to guide your own life.
You often found it easier just to adapt to their ideas of what was best
for you rather than trying to figure it out for yourself.
But in all this adapting to your society’s attempts to make you fit in,
and in your own attempt to find less trouble, you have unwittingly relinquished
your most basic foundation: your total and absolute freedom to create.
You have not given up this freedom easily, however, and, in fact,
you can never truly release it, for it exists as the most basic tenet of your very being.
Still, in your attempt to release it for the sake of getting along,
or in your hopeless resignation that you have no other choice than to give up your powerful
right to choose... you have gone crossways to your natural current, and contrary to your very soul.
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"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"
~ Bob Marley
