Do you consider yourself to be free?

LOL! All of my limitations are self-imposed! Oh my garsh, how I would love to answer this with a simple, 'YES' but what I will say is......I have made this my life's goal, and with plenty of "willful" thinking, in my near future, I will serve the world proud by accomplishing this.

Build Hope, it is good for Humanity...........

Peace

No, I am not completely free from biases, etc. If I were then perhaps I would be the most spiritually enlightened person on earth. Negative limitations can come from any agent that causes doubt and fear, including self. Some limitations are positive in that they keep us within bounds of what is good, logical, and courageous.

No - I'm not free. And yes, many of my limitations are self imposed. My guess is very few people are actually free from all this. You also forgot external stimuli (the things that hold us hostage to the *busy schedule*) and human emotion and ego. Our own emotions can be especially crippling. Show me a human who has overcome all of this and I'll tell you you're pointing to a God. Not even the most enlightened person can completely free him/herself from all of this. But we can try. It's something that needs to be continually worked at.

The mind has quite a clamp on us, no doubt. It is good at distraction, but when one is alert to these antics, there is freedom. When one follows the 'story-line' and falls, once again, for the hypnotic nature of it...well, freedom seems lost.

To get caught up in judgment, hatred, criticism, prejudices, etc. , well it, happens (arises), but they are noticed and evaporate quickly.

When the 'awareness/light' shines on thought processes, they soon disappear.

Unfortunately not in that sense. Too many people still have to much hatred for others and feel superior. Free from beliefs yep! One has the source to reason.

I am free of prejudices more than most people I know... but in a world fill with such evil it's foolish to be free of hatred... hatred has a place to remind you some people are not worthy of associating yourself with.

At least for the time being we enjoy quite a bit of perceived freedom. But that cannot last unless we take individual responsibility and action to preserve those freedoms. Myself; I would like to believe that I am becoming more free from the corporate/consumerism that I have been exposed to for most of my life.

I would like to think so but, the truth is...No! You see, I am a Christian saved by the Grace of God but, I fail miserably. Although, I fail...I know that I can receive true forgiveness. Something most people struggle with! God freely forgives when we truly repent!

Even so, we are all human and we will continue to be "screw-ups". It is in our nature to be so! But, we can also be overcomers too! That is what I strive for...to overcome these things through Him!

We are never entirely free of biases, jugments, hated etc...but we do the best we can to control those negative things, trying to remember that our freedom stops where the other person's freedom begins. And we try to treat others as we would like to be treated.

LOL Actually, I'm very expensive. That's why my other half calls me queen of the barrio. I am free of most of them. I have like little shadows left and I'm working on those, too. The thought patterns are the hardest and the most important. Life changer right there.