A freedom higher than choice
The highest freedom is not choice, it’s the fulfillment of your destiny
Your destiny is not your fate. It’s your highest calling, that which realizes your highest potential. That which gives you the deepest feeling of aliveness and joy and fulfillment. That which makes you feel you lived a life worth living.
Where every moment felt like it mattered.
This doesn’t mean you can’t realize this freedom at later stages in life. The realization of your highest potential happens throughout your life, and at the point of your awakening, you realize why you lived the life you did. Every single moment of it.
Every low, every breakdown, every obstacle, every failure, every moment wasted — it all matters. You cannot realize your highest potential without ALL of it.
All the missteps, all the endless grinding, all the chasing of all the wrong things — that too is part of your highest realization.
The purpose of awakening is then to realize why it mattered.
That is when you feel exalted. Redeemed. Relieved. At peace.
And from that point on, you live all of it, knowing it all matters.
A life without awakening is still the realization of your highest potential, simply without you knowing it.
I’m sure you will be questioning, right about now, how someone who is wasting their life away in their parent’s basement, is living their highest? Surely that is absurd.
To the rational mind it is completely absurd.
But what is the foundation for that rationality?
Logic that pleases your ego? Or firm truth of reality?
Tell me, isn’t the broken doing you a service by letting you help them?
Isn’t the loser in the basement making you feel better about yourself?
Isn’t the helpless honoring you by letting you fight a worthy battle?
Isn’t the downtrodden uplifting you by giving you a just cause to rise up and be glorified?
Isn’t the consumer giving every entrepreneur a product to build?
Aren’t we all living our highest in ways that make life an entangled web of meaningful beauty?
The rational mind lives in the illusion of freedom which is the illusion of choice.
When you think freedom is about choice, you calculate decisions based on some arbitrary programming of productivity-based worthiness, along with a bias for comfort and pleasure. That’s not choice, that’s the path to emptiness.
Freedom is living a life where you feel truly alive. Full aliveness. Through contrasts. Where even the emptiness and chasing end up having their place.
Real freedom is the fulfillment of our highest potential, in every moment, and sometimes that is to be down and out so someone else can lift you.
Sometimes it is to be the one who is opening your heart to a former you or a future you who needs to receive kindness and compassion.
Sometimes it’s your meanness and hurtfulness that awakens boundaries and sovereignty in the one who felt invisible and stepped over their entire life.
The suffering of one is the fulfillment of another. It’s helping each other, sometimes in unpleasant and unimaginable ways, that makes the highest realization possible, in practice over theory.
Stop calculating the highest. You are already living it. Always. Whether you realize it or not.
Higher consciousness is coming into the realization. It is seeing the interconnected web of being, a higher dimension of logic that our lower minds cannot wrap around.
That’s when it is easier to realize true freedom by experiencing life in its fullness, without resistance.
All choice is an illusion of control based in the belief that what you do enables a “better” life. When you follow that logical fallacy to its end, you realize you are chasing a carrot that doesn’t exist.
That’s when you realize that the highest freedom isn’t about choice — it’s a life fully lived. Which, in one way or another, you have been living already! And such life doesn’t get fixed, it only gets fuller.
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