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If we want to change and grow we have to be willing. We have to be willing to see all the difficult parts of ourselves with honesty. Not only do we need to be able to see them. We need to be willing to be fully open to them. And we need to be open with all of ourselves; that includes being willing to feel these places within us; not just think about these places.

When we think of Freedom our minds normally think of some blissful state. But to be truly Free, our Freedom must include a wisdom and a fearlessness. But not the type of fearlessness that we see in the movies. The freedom that I am speaking about comes from wisdom, fearlessness and knowing who we are directly.

If we are going to gain any sense of timeless eternal freedom, we have to be willing to transcend our stories. By stories, I am referring to all the stories we have in our minds about life. All of our conditioning, all of our thoughts about what should and shouldn’t be.