(Click for Audio: The Quest for Freedom)
“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself …”
Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King championed the cause of freedom from racial prejudice and a level of social inequality that today we find difficult to comprehend.
Freedom is a state of being, universally desired by all living things. The desire for freedom includes but goes down beneath the sale usa viagra soft online need to be free of oppressive social conditions. We desire freedom because, at the deepest level of our being, we are free.
It is this level of freedom Jesus referred to when he said to his fellow Jews, “You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free” (Jn. 8:32). His audience did not grasp his meaning, for they said, “We are descendants of Abraham, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will be made free’?”
Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.” The “sin” that most of us commit is that of knowing the truth, of being consciously out of touch with our spiritual essence. We may, like his listeners, be relatively free of imposed restrictions. If we are prone to worry and fear, on the other hand, we are imprisoned by these mental and emotional restrictions. We can achieve freedom from oppressive conditions while remaining in bondage to internal conflict.
To know the truth that sets us free is to touch that inner flow of unrestricted life that is our very essence. This inner freedom can be experienced regardless of external conditions. Yes, we want freedom in external conditions but without the inner connection the farmacia online generica kamagra outer, however wonderful, will not satisfy.
Your quest for freedom is a response to a deep level of yourself that is already free. Meditate on this and invite this free Self to step forward.