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As long as we believe what we think about the things around us, we will never be free. All thoughts are holding us in an invisible prison. A prison in a sense that you will never be able to get what you truely want thru the instrument of thought. What we truely want is to have one thing without the other. Pleasure without pain, love without hate, the list goes on.. We want to be happy, we want this and that. But since happiness is only a concept thrown into our little minds: a picture of one thing without the other, (always existing in some far distant future) even if we land right "smack dab" in the middle of happiness.. we would never know it. So we are chasing something which doesn't even exist. Chasing invisible illusions down invisible rabbit holes is all we seem to do in life. The closer you get to catching the rabbit, the happier you think you are becoming until you realize NOTHING can give you what you truely want. No "thing" (idea, experience, person) can give you the answers for your questions. All questions are born out of the answers which we already have, otherwise there can't be any question. You know ALOT about what you are searching for. If you want love, you know alot about loneliness. If you want to be happy, you know alot about unhappiness. We are only interested in things which we don't think we have. It is the illusion we have believed in which sends us down the particular illusional rabbit-hole. But let's face it: none of these things which we've been chasing have ever panned out or done their job. All the questions for peace and happiness should no longer be lingering around if they had in fact done their job. But who promised what and to whom? Our minds tricked us into believing that the answers were to be found in some "thing", other person or concept. It is the thought that is controlling and limiting our lives (sustaining the misery) and it's only anybody's guess when we will wake up out of the same old re-runs of belief and desire. It's a very mechanical process. Much like a tape-loop going 'round and around until we spot the next possible salvation. The next "hope" to deliver us the peace .. the goods. But there is no chappy delivering peace like a pizza! We're sitting here chillin' with the peace but thought is distracting us away into believing there is some chappy on his way over with a pizza. Distracting us into believing in these answers found outside of ourselves. We must give up waiting for him or her. They are not coming!!!
But all's we do is react to the slow delivery by demanding it for free. Demanding change in a positive direction - cause we deserve it! But this change is only positive for us. Since right and wrong are merely sign posts pointing us in lost directions for truth, by demanding change on a positive level, we are controlling and manipulating our surroundings for a preferred outcome ..in the name of love. Believing in the thought that anyone owes us anything is setting up a recipe for disaster. If we think somebody owes us some "feeling of salvation" or help on any level to sustain and maintain our own sanity, we have become dependent on some exterior source or "thing" in order to get what we want. And there we are again: back down the invisible rabbit-hole..
No one owes us anything. We don't owe anybody anything. Love has no grander purpose. We don't love people over some idea or "thing". All those "things" that people do to encourage ever-more reciprocal feelings are all just by-products of the illusion. They help propel the illusion ever more further down the rabbit-hole, provoking the tail of Oneness to finally arrive. But they are not the "reason" for your love. They are the bells and whistles of the illusional answers which we seek outside for who we are.
Not knowing who you are is knowing who you are. Closer than you'll ever get to the real goods. The self-image we create about ourselves exists only in the past. And if we truely want to break free from the pain which we create for ourselves by believing in the accumulated illusions, we must let go of the past. It's dead. Why try to hold onto something which is gone? Because it's comforting to think that those answers which we believed in (but didn't quite pan out) were in fact part of the journey towards ever-lasting happiness. Steps on the illusional stair-case towards freedom. ..So we keep the torch of "hope" lite just incase. It would be life shattering to think or admit that all our past efforts were leading us in the wrong direction and we must start fresh from here now..
Compassion for all -- Burkina Love Faso"
