An important truth revealed

[bilko]

Blighty is my home but my mind is my prison.

An important truth was revealed to me today through much toil and labour. Years i have spent in denial knowing this truth with my very essence. So long have i worked against it.

I put my back against the wall, at the bottom of the barrel, my body is no temple but a target board for all the ills and evil i have conjured.

I stay in this cold dank place knowing that no worse call befall me than this place in which i dwell wearing a smile for the world.

This is true of so many souls. Why do they take crack cocaine or prostitute themselves? Why do they live a hell when the truth is right in front of them?

Because from that place it can be no worse.


Today i realized something so important that i felt i must share it with you all.

I stand in the way of my success, my happiness, my dreams. Nothing else!
There is no barrier to stop me smoking.
There is no demon that demands i must not get fit.
There is no reason why i should not leave the bottle bottle be.

It might sound simple but i have spent 40 years coming to this truth. I am my own master, i own my dreams, i am FREE to do as i will.

The only thing that stops you living your potential is you.
Your desires are at your finger tips , do not retreat trough fear.

It has been a hard lesson learned and i hope i get a chance to prove it. Old habits may die hard but they will die.

Please; Please.

Spread the word.

Next time you see someone bearing the chains of life, love them with this message.

You can set yourself free!

[Nasu]

Very good call. I would ad that, in my opinion, once we make that choice and draw a line in the sand, then step over it, we should be true to the thought of each moment and avoid distraction, other that exerting ourselves, we should enter into nothing else, if possible then live from single thought to single thought. Well done, I smoked for many years, myself I found it helpful to have a glass of water in the early days and weeks when I got the thought to smoke, it helped with the hand to mouth thing and gave me the small breaks in my day to think, as smokes had. The journey of a thousand miles begins with just one step. Its an important step, carry on.. N

[bilko]

Thank you Nasu. I believe that this truth applies to everything but the boundary of our dreams.

[White Phoenix]

Thank you for your honest words bilko. This is indeed a tough world we live in, and for some the weight of our burdens can break us. We no longer see any light out there, and the darkness creeps its way inside until that's all there seems to be. Believe me, I know.
It's easy to forget how amazing each and every one of us really is. Despite all of the vastness of space and time, this infinite thing that we the universe, there is only one of you, completely unique, and the only being in all of creation capable of fulfilling your highest potential.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BP7KMrPp3g

[Lord Sidious]

Thank you for your honest words bilko. This is indeed a tough world we live in, and for some the weight of our burdens can break us. We no longer see any light out there, and the darkness creeps its way inside until that's all there seems to be. Believe me, I know.
It's easy to forget how amazing each and every one of us really is. Despite all of the vastness of space and time, this infinite thing that we the universe, there is only one of you, completely unique, and the only being in all of creation capable of fulfilling your highest potential.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BP7KMrPp3g

I order you to reveal yourself.

[Enquiring1]

Thats outstanding Bilko.

It seems to me that true wisdom comes from the experience of our struggle to climb out of the hole we dig for ourselves.

[mondaze]

it is important, you are right. I have recently broken the shackles of a thirty year marriage which felt like hell, and was probably created by myself! I have found my one true love and feel blissful but still some old habits raise their ugly heads.... and after great soul searching I came to the same conclusion as you allude to.... I am the problem. This self-evident truth is the most difficult one to attain. Well done to you! let's hope we can both keep this knowledge fixed in our sights.

[pilotsimone]

Very powerful!

I love your way of expressing it, bilko.

[KosmicKat]

Mondaze - don't think of yourself as the problem, if you have identified something (or more likely more than one thing) about yourself that you want to change, you are now in a position to begin making changes.

As for our own minds being the ultimate prison, it is true. But once we learn that the door is really not locked, and re-learn how to stand up and walk out of it (not talking about the "walk-in" phenomenon here) we can begin to experience our birthright; true freedom.

[Lord Sidious]

it is important, you are right. I have recently broken the shackles of a thirty year marriage which felt like hell, and was probably created by myself! I have found my one true love and feel blissful but still some old habits raise their ugly heads.... and after great soul searching I came to the same conclusion as you allude to.... I am the problem. This self-evident truth is the most difficult one to attain. Well done to you! let's hope we can both keep this knowledge fixed in our sights.

Are you the problem or the indentifier of the problem?
I think you are the solution, not the problem, or you wouldn't admit that there was a problem.

[meeradas]

Today i realized something so important that i felt i must share it with you all.
I stand in the way of my success, my happiness, my dreams. Nothing else!

Thanks, man, for the reminder.

... and wondering how many times i still need one