Yesterday, I talked about working on the self. Today is a new day.
To me, growth is always about challenging our assumptions about everything. The moment we consider ourselves to know everything there is we let ourselves fall behind while the world moves on. In the same way, I view freedom as something that can only be attained if we go through the struggle. In order to achieve our goals we have to go through the grind, but in doing so we become stronger. As we become stronger we become more independent, and being independent is something that allows us to break free from conditioning. It allows us to see the world for what it is.
Every day I think I've understood something, I always question it, which makes me look into it deeper so I come out with a (hopefully) better understanding. There's always something to learn, always something we've overlooked. Every problem has a solution. I think this is especially relevant now with how much misinformation is easily spread across the internet. To take anything face-value without question is like abandoning the search for truth. Without truth can we be free?
Peace
"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free." - GoetheWe have all been conditioned to think and see the world in a certain way. The way in which we're conditioned serves as the glass ceiling preventing us from soaring the skies of possibility. One thing Jordan Peterson, a famous clinical psychologist and university professor, often talks about is learning to challenge all of our assumptions of the world. When referring to the works of Jung, Nietzsche, and the like he talks about how they force us to question everything about reality and in the process we'd end up deconstructing the mind and reconstructing it back into something greater.
To me, growth is always about challenging our assumptions about everything. The moment we consider ourselves to know everything there is we let ourselves fall behind while the world moves on. In the same way, I view freedom as something that can only be attained if we go through the struggle. In order to achieve our goals we have to go through the grind, but in doing so we become stronger. As we become stronger we become more independent, and being independent is something that allows us to break free from conditioning. It allows us to see the world for what it is.
Every day I think I've understood something, I always question it, which makes me look into it deeper so I come out with a (hopefully) better understanding. There's always something to learn, always something we've overlooked. Every problem has a solution. I think this is especially relevant now with how much misinformation is easily spread across the internet. To take anything face-value without question is like abandoning the search for truth. Without truth can we be free?
Peace
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| The search for freedom starts in illuminating the mind. |
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