Wednesday, June 28, 2017

The freedom to choose consciousness over the world

I know some of you are saying, "Well, Robert always tells us that life is preordained, so how can it be free?"

 It is preordained to that person who keeps responding to the world, the person who responds to the world, to effects of this world, is a person [that] goes onward, and onward and onward, takes on more bodies, keeps taking on more bodies, keeps becoming more human and never becomes enlightened. 

It is only when you realize that you've got the freedom to let go. This freedom you have, the freedom to let go, that's not being hurtable. 

The freedom to choose consciousness over the world and things of this world. 

 That's the freedom we all have. 

We have this freedom. 
But if we forget about it and we become worldly, we have no freedom.

 In that case everything is preordained, predestined. 

So whether you want your life to be predestined or totally free, is up to you. It's your choice.

 An animal doesn't have this choice. An insect doesn't have this choice. A tree doesn't have this choice. A mountain doesn't have this choice. 

You have this choice. What are you doing with it? 

As long as you have feelings, of pain, disharmony, you feel distraught, you feel something is wrong some place, you're making a choice, right then and there. 

You're saying, "I'm going to feel hurt. I'm going to feel sorry for myself. I'm going to believe somebody is trying to do something to me, that life is bad, that it's everyone for themselves. 

We have to step on someone before they step on us." 
This will be our thinking. 
This will be our way of living. 
And if we live this way, if we think this way, if we act this way, then life is preordained for us, predestined. 
 And as you sow, so shall you reap. What goes around comes around. 

Yet you have to realize you're the cause of everything. 

You are the cause of everything that happens to you. 
There's no one to blame but you. 
If you have certain people in your life you can't get along with, your family, your relatives, whatever, you have purposely attracted these people before you came to this earth, and these people attracted you, for this is their karma and your karma, and you have to work it out. 

If you keep reacting the same way you always do, you will not work it out, and will get deeper enmeshed into it, and you will come back again, and again, and again, in different bodies, until you get it right. 
We can really say that the universe is a university to educate the soul.
Sri Robert Adams

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