We humans seek comfort zones in form of attachments, our pattern of thoughts, the way we see things, our delusions, our attitudes, masks we wear and the way we construct reality around us. As creatures of habit we begin to repeat these, we believe that life happens to us and we limit our own potential.
We view life from a cage, construct reality, see faults in others way of life, but fail to notice it in ourselves. We see others in a cage without realising that we ourselves are in a cage. We fail to look at ourselves from a distance.
We have become prisoners of our own mind. A prison created by our own irrational thoughts. In liberating ourselves from this prison lies our growth and happiness. This reminds me of Tagore’s wonderful poem:
Where The Mind is Without Fear
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow
domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the
dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought
and action–
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
