17 June 2012

Something that I've learnt...

very, very recently is about shackles...

How many times do we feel weighed down? or caught in a web? or entangled? or limited? or hemmed in?

If we look carefully, we're sure to see - as I did - that what started off as threads binding us very lightly in something, or with someone, have started changing into chains, or have started getting woven into a web, or have started tightening like a noose. But, we've allowed this to happen....and therein lies the tragedy.

Once though, we realize this, we have to perforce, if necessary, break these shackles - for the release of our souls and hearts, to clear the mind and brain, and to open out a little more space around the emotional and psychological part of our being.

Unless we forcibly remove these shackles, they'll just take us down.

However, it would also be good to remember that there are other threads - loving threads that we turn into shackles, thereby bringing down our loved ones as well as ourselves. These too have to be released...

Remember, even something as ordinary as forming opinions can start off the first part of the thread that we bind ourselves in, for an opinion has a for and an against built into it - and we must need take sides...

Give freely, so that at least no binding thread will start from you...