There was a younger brother whom his father considered inferior to the older brother in all but one aspect, he was simply fearless. The young man was distraught about his missing fear experience that he kept complaining about it. His father wanted to help him so he sent him to the minister who told him that he had to ring the church bells at midnight. While the young man was up in the church tower ringing the bells the minister put on a ghost costume in order to to scare him. Well, instead of running away, the young man beat the ghost up and the minister broke a leg in the process. Outraged, his father threw him out of the house and the young man was encouraged by others to undergo all kinds of trials and tribulations to experience what it means to be scared, including playing bowling with real ghosts, hanging out with dead folks and fighting for life with a dwarf of enormous strength. Yet he was so fearless and strong that he earned unimaginable riches and also married the king’s daughter.
Unfortunately, there was still was no happy ever-after for him. He still complained that he needed to know what it meant to feel fear. The princess had it one day with all his complaining and whining so she went with a bucket to a nearby lake at night and poured cold water with wiggly fish over her sleeping husband. In horror he got up and screamed, ‘Yes, now I know what it means to be scared!’ Isn’t our quest for liberation a little bit like that? We set out to find the Beyond but at the end of the day we are merely chasing a feeling of being at Home, the bliss, the serenity, the good vibrations, the connectedness with others and the efficacy of operating in the Now. The experience of inner and outer peace. The silence in the mind and love in the heart. The state when God looks at Herself. A day when the lost soul finally returns Home. It’s a feeling of finally breaking free!
Does anything really change when we break free? Are we any different than the day before? In some ways we are entirely changed and in others we are completely the same. What’s different, the drive is gone. Like a balloon that got popped the air fizzles. We no longer put on a show. We accept life as is. There is nothing to prove any longer but there is still something to accomplish. There is no doing, just being. We are finally a human being in the true letter of the word. So you still long for the feeling of being free? No worries, God is sending that special someone who is setting you free.
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