True Freedom

[@raqoon9270]

thank you 🙏🏼

[@foxdenham]

Thanks Don. We can do no other. X

[@jennys1658]

Absolutely beautiful so much gratitude for your profound sharing

[@donoakley]

Thank you so much. I appreciate your very kind note.

[@jennys1658]

So beautiful. Much gratitude Don

[@donoakley]

You are most welcome. I'm glad you enjoy the posts.

[@jennys1658]

Without doubt, always so beautifully expressed and thus shines a very clear guiding light

[@raqoon9270]

Don, I find that when I’m able to “let go” of constantly thinking about myself and my drama, and just let life happen, I lose the desire to talk, to interact with people, and even the desire to eat. Interestingly, I engage more on my tasks and on interacting with my animals and plants. However, the people around me tell me they are concerned for my mental health as I appear to them “like a zombie” or somehow completely disengaged from the life around me. This brings me back to concerning myself with my drama 😅(am I just in a trance? how should I ‘act’? etc). I appreciate any perspective on this.

[@donoakley]

I suggest trusting what brings you joy and peace. Engaging with plants and animals sounds very much like engaging with life to me, unless, of course, if a person sees themselves disengaged from the natural world. We might hope that our friends and family respect and will be supportive of this spiritual journey, but, in general, they will not understand it and will see it as threatening to their own belief systems. As one goes further, there can be a sense of becoming more alone. This is the inward journey to discover what is at the heart of our existence. From the outside, it can look selfish and like a separation from life and it may indeed be a bit like that for a while, but when we finally discover our true nature, we find that it is not separate at all from the whole of life. Other people may still not understand you, but you will know yourself in the deepest possible way and, from there, be capable of functioning in the world in beneficent ways. Thank you for your sincere and significant question. Don

[@raqoon9270]

@@donoakley thank you 🙏🏼

[@TommeeKnocker]

Where everything is let be, I am not, the eye cannot be seen, I looked within to find myself but only found object, then a feeling, a question of which way I truly faced, it was me, it was I, I am that.

[@donoakley]

A very nice one sentence synopsis of the journey: When we accept things as they are it frees us to look objectively at what is actually here and now. Then a willingness to look deeply and follow the breadcrumbs with self-honesty, devotion and earnestness without any preconceived ideas about what you may find. (If we look for a particular state or experience we will miss it.) As you say, it was you all along. No separation, There is only one. And, indeed, Thou Art That.