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[Minyatur]

I think he was just trying to point out that if you think you're free, you're more deeply enslaved than you might want to believe

This seems a whole lot like a quote I really loved before turning to spirituality and perceiving things through the nature of spirit.

None is more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe to be free.

While I thought this was true, I think in term of spirit it is the exact opposite and now I say : No spirit is more enslaved that one that perceives itself as such.

Think of all the worst restrictions upon one's freedom you can think of, and I tell you that a truly free spirit will still do the great work through them so long it did not let go of perceiving its spirit as free.

If you were truly free, you'd have no fear and the knowledge of how to cross an intersection that is empty regardless of a red light.  You could treat it as a stop sign then go, but no, mostly we will sit, and wait, for no reason other than, because I've learned to not go on a red light.

Most people are just on auto-pilot though so I don't know about that.

If I wait at a red light with no one around. I'm most likely high with good music following an unconscious pattern that will allow me to arrive at the ending of a song. I took wrong turns on highways sometimes just to see it led to a 20 minutes song finishing right upon arrival.

The spiritual path is all about aligning oneself with the natural flow of the Universe. The ego will resist this in its constructs of identity, yet it is in the Universe that the core of itself lies and the flow it resists is but to have a centered and healthy relationship with one's own beingness.