All anybody has to say is his truth, but even if it's The Truth, it still doesn't set me free.
Only if I know the truth it sets me free. 

I need to know that I know, otherwise it is only hearsay, and not my truth, and I won't be able to act on It.

So the only problem to knowing the truth which gives me freedom, peace, health, and happiness is my willingness or ability to hear the truth, which means to understand it and to believe it. I have to think it through for myself. And test it out.

However, when I check to see what I know I find, I know nothing, really. I only go along making up beliefs as they fit into my life story or my past indoctrinations. Or isn't that true?

To me it seems that the real obstacle to knowing the truth is the fact that I know nothing, that it is all make-believe. Except what I know without believing. But all I know without believing is that "I AM." The rest is a story of my life full of mixed feelings and confused interpretations, a story that changes every time i want to tell it.

But then through mindfulness meditation I learned that I don't have to identify with the story, and found that if I refrain from adding any story or belief to that "I AM," I know that there is only open consciousness, ready to recieve my thoughts and imagination.

And if you look at your mind, you know it, too. That that's what you are, the great "I Am," and that's what some used to call God, the great "I Am."
No separation before the first thought. And the thought that I allow into that open screen in my mind is what I get. It's what I decide to focus on and that's what will create my next thought, and the next, until it is a whole story and my experience.

When I accept that, I know that I am source, and that I have the freedom to decide what I believe and what I think. and how I design my story line.  I am free to think peace, love, health, prosperity, friendship all the time, and that will determine what I do and how I feel and what I call "my life."

The freedom is to make it my dream life, and my dream world, and my dream moment, right now, by focusing and imagining my dream and claiming the right to live it.  There is nothing else. Only my mind deciding on my thoughts and imagining my dream; and the freedom to make life good, the way I love it, - to think love, peace, and unity so that that's all I experience all the time. 

And you have that choice, too.
 
Simple, eh?

Too bad I usually forget the next morning. I get back into the old story they taught me in kindergarten, full of anger, hate, and fear. Especially when they call to war, or to fight evil. It seems so right to fight evil, even though I know that what you fight only grows stronger.

That's why I want a Society of Friends Network, to have friends who remind me how wonderful it is as long as we remember to make it so.


And I hope you join me and help me tell the others, until the whole planet gets it.
It is the way we make it. So let's make it a dream world.
Free, peaceful, healthy, and happy.
Now.



P.S.: Now I remember. I read the book "The Power of Decision" by Raymond Charles Barker last week. That explains the whole thing very clearly.  - Funny, i forgot. Obviously it did reach my subconscious though. And it feels good to be so free. Maybe you should ckeck it, too.

This version is from my diary last week, in form of a "spiritual mind treatment," for treating my own mind.

The Truth That Sets Me Free                                                            

There is one life in the universe which cannot be divided against Itself. This life expands and expresses Itself as all life forms, as plants, animals, humans and consciousness. It's intelligence is in me and I am aware of It as It is aware through me and as my perceptions of life now.  There is one mind, one intelligence, one consciousness, and humans are taking part in It and making use of It. As It supports life and nature, and as It supplies everything we need for our lives from food and shelter to self awareness, peace and love, we call it goodness itself, or God, "de goode man" (in old Gerrman).

As I experience love when I express love and as I feel good when I act out of a sincere desire for goodness, harmony and peace, I know that the goodness is flowing through me as me. I am aware that this power for good runs in and through my life and I am immersed in It. I feel It as the vibrations in my body and as the feelings in my guts. I cannot be separated from It nor work against It. I realize that bad thought or evil actions are only reactions out of anger and fear.

As I recognize the truth that my life is It's life, and that my true Self is the Goodness Itself I am set free from all worries, fears and resentments and I feel the joy of being set free to express my Self uninhibitedly knowing that only good can come from me as long as I reject  acting out of resentment or fear.

I recognize my true desire for peace, love and harmony between people and know that my decision to live freely as my true Self is my best contribution to the well being of all. I know that deep inside I am love, I am peace, I am harmony, and in gratitude I let it be so.