Are You Independent? July 4th Musings
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Channel: Rabbi Simon Jacobson at Meaningful Life Center · 2011 · Howto & Style
Chukat-Balak: 07/1/09 Do you feel independent? Free of impositions, unencumbered by others demands and expectations of you, uninhibited by psychological dependencies, liberated from life's pressures? For that matter, how many people do you know that are truly secure and emancipated? So why then do we call July 4th Independence Day?! True, on this day the United States declared its independence from England. But how does that help us if we remain enslaved to our fears and trapped by people's expectations of us? Our world is certainly freer today than ever before, without the oppressive dominance of totalitarian leaders. We have unprecedented access to information and to each other; breathtaking technologies making life easier by the day and freeing up our time. But in this open universe are we freer human beings? Are our relationships healthier? Is the organism called the human race breathing well, unobstructed? What does it feel like to be free like a bird, floating without a worry in the world? Have you ever experienced such lightness of being? Join Rabbi Jacobson in celebrating a true "Independence Day," one that allows you to dance beneath the sky with free abandon, unrestrained by the existential shackles of the daily grind. Discover an unknown resource (in this week's Hebrew calendar) available to us all, which can help you access the source of independence within yourself and how to actualize it in your life. Come, fly.
