freedom.
As poet and onetime slave Phillis Wheatley wrote in 1774: “In every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.”
I've quoted this before but I feel the need to keep reading this because if we want to get out of the web of perception-related issues and daily struggles with ourselves, we have to first of all desperately want to be free in our hearts and minds. If it is our thoughts that are limiting us, then we need to work on this. We have to break free of all binding and limiting factors. We have to find the determination to be free.
I know we have lots of responsibilities to fulfil every single day....something or the other keeps cropping up that needs our full-time attention. However, we have to remember that while all relationships are important, the relationship with ourselves is the most important - not in the egoistic sense of the word, but in the sense of working on ourselves to free ourselves from all the things that get in the way of our own growth, that limit us, that make us feel small and unworthy. This will help us to become more complete people, help us live our life to the fullest and also help us in our relationship with others.
This is not going to be easy. Nor is it going to happen overnight. It is a long and sometimes arduous struggle to make ourselves free....We will fall, but we pick ourselves up and go on striving to achieve that all important goal of freedom...This is the only thing that has any meaning in life and that can, in fact, give meaning to life.