The Liberated Life is grounded in Love, Joy, Peace, and Freedom; this is the best life. It begins by centering ourselves in an Unconditionally Loving Presence. This is God/the Holy as we understand God/the Holy to be. Starting here, we experience Joy and Peace because we are free to become the best version of ourselves; no longer constrained by anything that would limit us from being (or becoming) who we know ourselves to be - our True Self. This does not mean we live a hedonistic lifestyle and do whatever we want, for such behaviour is often at the expense of someone else’s Love, Joy, Peace, and Freedom. What we desire for ourselves must be the same thing we desire for all. Be consistent here and don't elevate yourself above others. Not treating people equally also creates unrest in the world. In the end, we are all better off when Love, Joy, Peace, and Freedom are the fruits of individual and communal life.

The Truths we claim to know are stories we tell to make sense of who we are and the world we live in. This is a story about Love, Joy, Peace, and Freedom. Love here is Pure and Unconditional. It ebbs and flows through each life and the world. Nothing is disconnected from this Love, the source of which is God/the Holy, as you understand God/the Holy to be. This Holy Presence is infinite and limitless. Nothing exists apart from the Presence of God/the Holy because nothing can exist outside of an infinite Reality. Infinity has no beginning and no end. It has no boundaries. It is all and in all. Infinite Love also has no beginning, no end, and no boundaries. It too is all and in all.

Knowing the fullness of Love is the essence of The Liberated Life and the antidote to fear. Fear keeps people stuck in ways of thinking and behaving that limit them. Religion is one source of fear when it limits people’s behaviour and personal choices through what is deemed to be orthodox [True] beliefs and practices. The influence of closed religious-based thinking is seen in an attempt to manage and control access to God/the Holy. When fear dominates, Love, Joy, Peace, and Freedom recede. 

The futility of any attempt to oversee access to and knowledge of God/the Holy is seen in light of its Infinite Reality. The finite cannot contain the fullness of the infinite, nor can it control access to it, for there is no in/out or either/or when it comes to infinity. Closed religious-based thinking is misguided when it believes it can control and maintain our relationship with God/the Holy through certain beliefs, rituals, and practices. This applies to all religions, even those that profess to reveal the Absolute Truth of God/the Holy via prophets, teachers, saints, religious experiences, and sacred texts. 

The Liberated Life: Part Two