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What is your relationship to independence?

Posted on Jul 4th, 2009 by will : transformer will
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for July 04, 2009:

 

Independence, nice word, but an extraordinarily delicious experience. As I become more intimate with independence the stronger my relationship with it becomes. I have learned to become not obsessed with things and therefore, not being possessed by things. I have also learned to avoid, at all cost, needy relationships. I have discovered that needy people and unhappy people, is a condition of their own choice and that there is nothing that I can do to change that. I will not allow people, of any sort, to suck the life out of me with their insatiable desire of needs and happiness----------------------------------------.


     The more that I experience independence and experience unimaginable freedom, it becomes self generating, vanishing wants and needs. Perhaps this is a manifestation of Emerson's quote where he said: "What we love, that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love."---------------------------------


     So, strictly speaking, my relationship with independence is becoming very intimate and it is the place in which I choose to reside.

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30 minutes later
Dave said

Beautiful will!  You have captured the spirit of true independence.  

I recall the words of the Moody Blues:

“Just open your eyes, and realize the way its always been.  Just open your mind and you will find the way its always been.  Just open your heart, and that's a start…” 

Such magnificent perfection in your words.  Thank you

sandi : sanddollar
about 1 hour later
sandi said

…and the Blue Ribbon goes to Will for the best Freedom Speech here on Independence Day!  A nice round of applause for Will, Ladies and Gentleman, and now back to our Sponsor….

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