Spiritual Freedom

Carried as if on the tide of to and fro
We live our lives harnessed by emotion
Is it mine or is it yours?
We feel what we feel, but we aren't living in solitude.

We are enmeshed - as one
Each a part of the other
My sadness is your sadness...your anger is my anger
The spark of love in your eye lights the spark of love in mine.

We are connected
Souls who walk alone, yet are never alone
Tied together with the threads of life -
Silver threads that glisten with a truth we are rarely aware of.

Afraid of danger we take few risks - yet we create our reality
We have little to fear but that which we set up for ourselves -
Weights so heavy that we drag our feet through life
Why?

If we only knew that we are all birds
Free to fly...
Free to explore our endless boundaries...
Free to look down upon the world to a sight we seldom consider imaginable.

From the heights is the 'Great Perspective'
To see this 'Great Perspective' is to understand our wholeness
- our unitedness - our beauty
Beauty in one - beauty in all
Same. Different. All One.

So we come back to the tide of to and fro
This time we are the bird who can choose to sit upon the water's surface
And be taken where the waters lead
But also free to lift off at a moment's notice into the great heights of the sun,
the moon and all things magnificent.

A master of one's own destiny
To experience the depths of life's emotional journey
But also to reach the heights of greater awareness and perspective
Balanced. Whole. This is true spiritual freedom.

Donna Thomson

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