Years and years ago I started writing a lot of things down.
Whatever I thought might be helpful in the future.
I went through months and months of this, and I saved everything.
I still sometimes save quotes and stuff like that.
Anyway, I came across some notes.
The cycle of bondage and liberation.
We go from bondage to spiritual faith,
then from spiritual faith to great courage,
then from great courage to liberty,
then from liberty to abundance...
But, then we go from abundance to selfishness,
then selfishness to complacency,
then complacency to apathy
and apathy to dependency,
then from dependency back to bondage.
It was from a video I was watching about the rise and fall of humanity.
I'd link the video here, but I can't remember the title.
In the video, it describes how certain eras go through certain phases.
Like how the golden age was that of abundance,
but how society crumbled and fell back into apathy.
I think that we collectively go through these cycles,
but we do so individually, too.
It's interesting how spiritual faith plays a role in releasing us from bondage.
It does take courage to break through our bonds of complacency and apathy.
We get to a point where we stop trying and give up.
I've been there and in a lot of ways, I'm still there.
I have a little bit of faith, but not nearly enough.
Faith is the opposite of fear. In the book I'm reading, they say that love is.
Love and faith are closely related.
I've been afraid to fall in love again.
The fear is of pain and loss and having to go through those emotions again.
Getting hurt is inevitable, though.
I'm either bound to get hurt or hurt someone in some way.
Because nothing lasts forever. I know this.
I'm in the down cycle, still. Trying to get back up to the up cycle.
So I've been trying to increase my spiritual faith, and my faith in myself.
I made notes about The Devil card, which represents my sign.
It's about power and energy being imprisoned.
And how repression is dangerous because when something is conscious,
we have a choice in how to handle it, when it is unconscious, we don't.
"We have the opportunity to be free from the bondage of our own fear."
My fear of falling in love, getting hurt, pain...
It goes on to say that we can remove blocks and inhibitions
by examining what is really going on inside
and by looking under the surface.
Blocks and inhibitions in the psyche restrict healthy expansion.
When they are removed, great progress can be made on an inner level.
That's what freedom looks like to me. Like removing blocks and inhibitions.
Like progress on an inner level. Which is what I really want.
It's really about making choices because that is what gives us hope.
Because choices are opportunities and mechanisms of change.
Whatever I thought might be helpful in the future.
I went through months and months of this, and I saved everything.
I still sometimes save quotes and stuff like that.
Anyway, I came across some notes.
The cycle of bondage and liberation.
We go from bondage to spiritual faith,
then from spiritual faith to great courage,
then from great courage to liberty,
then from liberty to abundance...
But, then we go from abundance to selfishness,
then selfishness to complacency,
then complacency to apathy
and apathy to dependency,
then from dependency back to bondage.
It was from a video I was watching about the rise and fall of humanity.
I'd link the video here, but I can't remember the title.
In the video, it describes how certain eras go through certain phases.
Like how the golden age was that of abundance,
but how society crumbled and fell back into apathy.
I think that we collectively go through these cycles,
but we do so individually, too.
It's interesting how spiritual faith plays a role in releasing us from bondage.
It does take courage to break through our bonds of complacency and apathy.
We get to a point where we stop trying and give up.
I've been there and in a lot of ways, I'm still there.
I have a little bit of faith, but not nearly enough.
Faith is the opposite of fear. In the book I'm reading, they say that love is.
Love and faith are closely related.
I've been afraid to fall in love again.
The fear is of pain and loss and having to go through those emotions again.
Getting hurt is inevitable, though.
I'm either bound to get hurt or hurt someone in some way.
Because nothing lasts forever. I know this.
I'm in the down cycle, still. Trying to get back up to the up cycle.
So I've been trying to increase my spiritual faith, and my faith in myself.
I made notes about The Devil card, which represents my sign.
It's about power and energy being imprisoned.
And how repression is dangerous because when something is conscious,
we have a choice in how to handle it, when it is unconscious, we don't.
"We have the opportunity to be free from the bondage of our own fear."
My fear of falling in love, getting hurt, pain...
It goes on to say that we can remove blocks and inhibitions
by examining what is really going on inside
and by looking under the surface.
Blocks and inhibitions in the psyche restrict healthy expansion.
When they are removed, great progress can be made on an inner level.
That's what freedom looks like to me. Like removing blocks and inhibitions.
Like progress on an inner level. Which is what I really want.
It's really about making choices because that is what gives us hope.
Because choices are opportunities and mechanisms of change.
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