After visiting some friends in Germany, this wisdom becomes so obvious. I met Guido for the first time in Thailand a couple of years ago. He wrote this quote in my diary. Since then this wisdom was a guidance in my life. While visiting him in Bonn, I saw he got the quote from this poster hanging on his wall. The quote together with the beauty pic, make me even better understand.
In Berlin, Damaris, my lovely host, gave me the song. I just love the calm songs from Live and while hearing this one, things become more clear.
We create our own life. Our destiny does not depend on outer chances we just follow. It depends on the choices we make deep inside. It is not easy to let go of chances which look attractive. But if they are not 100% in line with our inner knowing, they are leading to nothing but suffering.
We like our daily environment, even if we feel stuck. Because we know it and it feels familiar. We are afraid to let go. Let go of the stuckness, the numbness.
All we have to do, is to choose. We are free. Free to choose the life we want.
Very appropriate in my own life. I am in a phase of choosing. The choices I make now, will create my life in the future. That’s why I wish myself clarity. Clarity but also braveness to bring my choices to reality. That means that I wanna be free enough to find as well. Brave enough to let go of the past. To be free to do what is necessary to be done.
Ans
even now
the world is bleedin’
but feelin’ just fine
all numb in our castle
we’re always free to choose
never free enough to find
I wish somethin’ would break
cause we’re runnin’ out of time
“Overcome” by Live
September 11, 2009 at 22:24 |
Hi! I have this poster DESTINY in my room, I love it.
When I take a look at the picture I always find peace and hope in the present and future, and wonder if we the choices leads us to something wonderful…
I like the words you wrote.
June 14, 2008 at 16:43 |
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January 14, 2008 at 18:09 |
Ho my sweet Maria,
Thank you for your concern, but don’t worry. Good mantra’s or bad ones, good thoughts or bad thoughts, it really doesn’t matter. I learned to accept and go beyond both. All are fine. The art of living is to accept also our bad parts. They are part of us and we learned a lot through them.
It is just my reality and experience that it is easy to choose, but not so easy to bring choices into reality. Not easy because of attachment to the past. Therefore, letting go of the past is a necessary condition. And that is exactly what I wanted to express in this blog. Warda got it right. The last words are the most important ones and they implicate that I choose to be free enough to find.
So no worries,
I am fine and trust my own inner guidance.
It is the best I can get.
Big hug,
Ans
This comment in answer to the comment of Marta on my 360° blog:
… So my lovely friend, please don’t let your mind get you like that… Ok, I can explain a bit… Don’t say to yourself that you’re “never free to find”… Remember: the words have power. And such a power that they have! So it’s kind strange and sad for me to hear the song that is playing here… It’s like a bad mantra, although a “bad mantra” is a impossible thing to exist. But I’m pretty sure that you understood what I mean. If you keep yourself listening or repeating that words inside your mind, your mind will keep getting you, by that trick. So free yourself, free your mind and free your heart. The silence is the best answer. Just in silence you will hear God talking to you. God or the Divine Great Being, the Supreme Holy Being, there are many names of God but He, Himself, is just ONE. So do we. WE ARE ONE with God, WE ARE ONE with all.And pay a little attention in what you said: “Since then this wisdom was a guidance in my life.” So I ask one more thing to you, my dear friend: is not a time for you to try to find a better guidance? A guidance that say to you that you’re “never free t find”, is not a real and good guidance and it’s not wisdom. No way for that. Please free yourself of thinking too much, free yourself of trying so hard to find and buil your future now, just living, just doing what you need to do for the moment. Remember the power of NOW. And all the Universe will come to your hand in one single second. And less you ask or think, more you will understand everything, all the meaning of your life will come to you in the silence. And you already know that, right my friend? And talking about free yourself from your mind, are you ready to find your new spiritual teacher?
When the disciple is ready, the Master shows himself. The sentence is something like that. I don’t know it exactly but you understood. You are ready, sweet Ans! 
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