Tuesday, June 20, 2023
A zoo rescued a bear who for most of his short life had been confined to a 12×12 pin. When they released him from captivity, they literally had to push him out of the cage. He didn’t even realize the door was open. When he got out, he continued to exist confined to a 12×12 footprint. They got him out of the cage, but they couldn’t get the cage out of him.
A homeless man was given a house, months later, it deteriorated, and he again slept outside. Good people gave him a home, but they couldn’t get homelessness out of him. A poor man won the lottery, coming into millions, and months later he was broke and penniless. Money was deposited into his bank account, but poorness was never withdrawn from his mind. A desperate, lonely man found a wife. They marry, and then divorce. He gained a wife, but never lost his desperation and loneliness.
You’re free to wander as you please, to run in the open spaces, to have what you want, and to do what you want. You have freedom to explore. You have freedom to love. You have freedom to own. If you’re confined in your mind and heart, you too will be confined in earthly possession and accomplishment. What you lack is merely conceptual, like that bear; and you have been set free from that bondage. Freedom is not by gaining physical things, but by losing one inner thing – losing fear. Faith is that great, unknown realm of possibility that so many people mistaken as something to fear. The mind and eyes cannot see, thus fills in the gap with limited thinking and garbage and stories of despair. The totality of all possibilities exists; limitlessness is real; abundance is everywhere. But where? It’s waiting for you to release it from its mental cage.