"Are you aware that you are conditioned?
Most people are second-hand human beings.
The truly religious man is he who, realizing his conditioning, is breaking through that conditioning. As long as you remain within that field of the culture, of society, of greed, of envy, of achievement, you are not a free human being. You may think you have free will, but you are just part of this monstrous society, a conditioned human being."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Do you know what a vector is? One force, say the traumatic experiences of the past, pull you to the right, while the other, say the subconscious fears and aspirations of your parents, pulls you to the left. The resulting force puts you smack in the middle of the two, giving you the illusion of free-will when in fact you are programmed just as a computer.
Breaking free is the ability to see these forces at play but managing to step out of them, the memories, the fears and aspirations, and seeing what is truly in front of us. Reality as is, witnessed by a self-less observer and actor who is part of the Oneness.
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