The Challenge to be Completely Free!

Every moment, life shows up in a certain manner. There is great temptation to react - mind jumps to conclusions, forms opinions and suggests a series a actions based on past experiences!

Observe ...How original are your thoughts? Are you thinking freely or merely pretending to do so? Is your mind creating freely, or, do you simply have a well-conditioned "computer" which is reacting efficiently to the world?

A Completely Free State can lead to so many interesting things....one of them is Complete Responsibility...another one is Choosing a Creative Response (frequently, a challenge to be extraordinary)......but, that happens spontaneously...there is Absolute Choice and not a reaction to the world!

Paradoxically, "surrender" is an access to freedom. He is a beautiful exerpt from How to Use Your Spiritual Power and Influence:

To some people, surrender is a four-letter word, a word that suggests the loss
of power. Look at it another way: surrender is just an expression of FREEDOM -- the freedom to let inspiration flow, the freedom to love. After all, we can't love if we can't let love flow. In that sense, surrender is a way of GAINING tremendous power, and using power effectively in the world.
One fine day, we will recognize what surrender really is -- something so natural, we almost don't even notice it. In that recognition, we experience great relief.
Relief in doing. When we are doing the right thing, we sometimes get special help. Perhaps, this time it seems easy to do something that was hard to do in the past. We feel a certain wind in our sails. We begin to realize that we are becoming part of a larger, more graceful process.
Relief in speech. Likewise, when we speak, we don't always have to rehearse, or think it over. The right words seem to come -- we seem to communicate perfectly, and it all seems right. Even if the subject is difficult, everyone is happy to hear the words of truth, and everyone walks away heartened and glad.
Relief from figuring out what to do. Sometimes, we don't have to think about the right thing to do, it just comes to us: "Yes! This is what I should do!" And when we do that, whatever it is, things seem to work perfectly. The more we follow that kind of inspiration, the better things work.
Surrender gives us this new ease and this new power: the freedom to act spontaneously as the spirit moves, in accordance with true spiritual inspiration. The secret of surrender is this:Surrender is when sole responsibility yields to soul response ability.

So, are you RESPONDING or are you REACTING to life? How often do we meet this challenge thrown to us every moment?