Quotes on Freedom

[Paradise-on-Earth]

Being Happy
is a VERY PERSONAL thing,
and it really has NOTHING to do with anyone else.

Abraham Hicks

[spiritualcookie]

YOU CAME HERE WANTING FREEDOM

On the one hand you want freedom,
and on the other hand it is kind of nice to have the feeling that there is someone older and wiser that will guide you and take care of you.
And you're right when you recognize you can't have it both ways.
And we will take that a little further and say
you can only have it one way,
because you have come forth with the intent of being creator.
You were feeling your power...
Can't change the deal now, you see.

(...)

As physical beings, you think so much about some great teacher that knows everything; this is the father that you were talking about that has everything figured out so that you can say,
"Tell me what to do, Dad".

And we say that he does not know everything forevermore.

He is only that which he is now, and you certainly have access to that, but your reason for existence is to go beyond that.




- Abraham

[spiritualcookie]

ALTHOUGH FREEDOM IS A BASIC HUMAN DESIRE, THE STRENGTH OF WANTING IT DIFFERS BETWEEN DIFFERENT PEOPLE

Some people really really really want freedom.
So just the slightest little hint that they are not free for a moment sends them off the scale.
While others don't care about freedom so much.
So you could lead them around by the nose and they would say, "ok."

And they do not feel negative emotion about it because their power or their desire to be free is not so intense.

And one is not better than the other.

There are not greater states of evolution. That is our point.
There are different states of evolution.


- Abraham

[Paradise-on-Earth]

Uncheatable Uponable


HS:
I was feeling that way for the last nine months really up until the date the night before I came on this cruise which I was feeling awesome about and then I found out that he's been cheating on me for a really long time.

Abe:
We agree that you all have different levels of how much you're willing to put up with. And whether he's just annoying, or whether he is violating some commitment that the two of you have established- in other words, we get it that there are narrower and wider gaps! But we want to be so bold as to say that,

whoever you are interacting with, is going to violate the commitment
that almost all of you want them to keep!
And the commitment that almost everybody wants everybody
that they're up close to impersonal to keep is,
"I want you to promise to put me first- no matter what."

And that is a commitment that no one keeps!

Because you're not wired like that!
You were not born like that!
You you've come to establish... We would like your marriage vows, or your relationship vows, to go like this:

"Dear one, I want you to know that- as much as I love you, there's someone who comes first before you.
And that is my alignment with the source, within me!
That's my inner being, that's who I'm devoted to.
That's why I'm aligned to.
That's who I'm feeling for.
That's what my commitment is to.

And my promise to you is, that I will give you, as much as I can, the fullness of me!
Not as the separated me.
I'm going to do my best to satisfy my alignment, and therefore give you the gift of living with someone, who has aligned.
And what that will be for you, what that will mean for you, how that will play out for you, is:

I won't be needing or demanding from you behavior, in order to keep myself happy!
My happiness will be dependent upon my focus."

There are people who feel betrayed, if their partners think about other people.
There are people who feel betrayed if their partner doesn't give their undivided attention to them.
There are people who feel jealous if anyone feels happy at the thought, or in the conversation with somebody else!

There are all kinds of degrees of cheating on you, and for the most part, any part of someone else cheating on you just means: "You've taken your attention away from me! And I was dependent upon your attention, being upon me, so that I could feel good! And now you've taken your attention away from me...!" (Towards the HS) This is too strong for you.

But, we really want you all to not be dependent upon anyone for the alignment.
That it is the epitome of looking for love in all the wrong places!

And when you say you've cheated on me, we know. We know there are agreements that you make! We get what you're talking about.

But we would like you to be uncheatable-upon-able!
"I'm stable in my self-respect! My sense of well-being is not dependent upon your behavior."

So what you're really wanting to do, is decide what you want, and become a vibrational match to what you want. And you will attract a partner who is a vibrational match to what you want, you see! And so we're not suggesting that you will not find another partner!

We're just suggesting that you find true alignment with who you are before you go looking!

from the official Abraham Hicks youtube-clip "Uncheatable Uponable", 2014

[spiritualcookie]

What do you do when someone you love shares their experiences with you which demonstrate they are feeling a lack of freedom?

We just stop and acknowledge that they ARE absolutely free.
That they are so free that their every thought and feeling attracts unto them.
And then we feel better for them.

We envision them getting what it is we know that they want.
We envision them moving through life experience and discovering what we have already come to discover.
But we do not see ourselves as responsible to help them discover.
We just see them as discovering it.
And then we try to be the best example that we can be for them to discover it.

Now if you are really wanting to roll up your sleeves and help them, you might help them see the correlation between what they are getting and what they've been thinking and feeling.
Or you may say,
"I have felt that way, but I noticed that the more I felt that way, the more I got it.
And so, I started concentrating on not giving so much attention to that,
and then I didn't attract so much of that."


- Abraham

[Paradise-on-Earth]

That Security that you want is the same thing
as the Freedom that you seek.
It is ALIGNMENT.
It's control of how you feel.

Abraham Hicks

[Paradise-on-Earth]

There is this triad of intentions:
1., The basis of your life is freedom. You are so free that you can choose bondage.
2., The inevitable outcome of life is growth, or expansion.
3., The reason for life is joy- but that is an option.

(Abraham Hicks)

[Paradise-on-Earth]

There are no lessons to be learned.
Only life, to be lived!

Abraham

[Paradise-on-Earth]

Astrology and Destiny...?

HS:
I was told... I've had, um astrological readings, and have been told through my natal chart, that... how does that work? They take your, um, birth date where you were born... the time you were born-

Abe:
...all the past [Applause] stuff? The stuff that happened, before you've put anything in your Vortex? The stuff that... really, we're just playing with you a little bit. But we ARE playing with you! So, what's the big question? The question is: There's manifestation. And there's, um, predictions. Predictions based on the fact, that you didn't just begin when you were born, here! The fact, that you are and were Consciousness, coming in, does mean that you did set intentions in motion.

And so, we are never going to say that there is nothing to all of that!
Because there IS something to all of that.

So, you get here, just as you planned from an atmosphere, a non-physical atmosphere of non-resistance.
And came into a time and space, and then began having experiences, and continuing the creation by launching your Rockets of Desire.

And so, all we are suggesting in this conversation about astrology is, that you understand that- once you got here... in other words, your immersion into this time-space-reality was perfect every single time. And then you got here, and you began offering new intentions. And it's the gap between where you stand, and what this Vortex is, that you are really all about!

And so we could say to 100% of you, that getting here went really well. Because you came from nonphysical- just the way you intended to, from an atmosphere of no resistance but after you got here, you started sort of mucking it up a little bit. So, that's the part that you're really wanting to focus upon! So, we cut you off. We didn't even let you ask your question! But now we have prepared you, for what you know the answer is going to be. Ask your question!

HS:
Um, I've forgotten what my question was (laughter)...

Abe:
Good. One day, early on in Jerry and Esther, doing this work, they were at a dinner table with a lot of people, who had been at the seminar. They all went to a restaurant and sat around a big table, and somebody had a book of astrology and it was a few volumes. They were big, big, books and they were passing it around and they were saying- whoever brought the books- "pick your birth date and the time of your birth as nearly as you can, and read what it says!" and so, it was a great hit!

Everyone was passing around the table and the book came to Esther at the precise moment, that the waiter was taking her order and so she's giving her order to the waiter and Jerry said "I'll find you in the book!" So he found her in the book. And when she came back to focus on the book, he said "here!" and she read it, and she said "Oh my God! that's exactly it! How precise could that possibly be?" and Jerry said "I don't know! I just opened the book and pointed."

HS:
So... so my question is, because this was ingrained in me, because this was ingrained in me that...

Abe:
A lot of things were! -Getting sick and dying is ingrained in you. -Everything that everybody's got, you're probably going to get: "One out of four has it, and you're probably the one..." -all of this is ingrained in you. -"There's not enough money to go around." That's ingrained in all of you! -"The rich are taking it all, and there's a finite pie with only so much money in it, and if you're not born into it, you're not going to get it" or -"If you're not doing something..." in other words, a lot is ingrained in you.

That's no excuse!
A lot is ingrained in you. What you're wanting to do, is measure what you're focused upon! Which may be what's ingrained in you against, or with your Inner-being-point-of-view about is saying! Because we're not saying it's incorrect!
We're just saying there are Paths of much lesser resistance that you can follow. Connect the current dots!

Backstage, for Esther, Val always leaves a notepad. Different sizes, but she always needs one, because she knows that Esther likes to sit and do a focus wheel. Or now Esther's doing her bag of marbles! And so she wants something to write on, and she always leaves a pen and Esther picked it up, and off she went and the pen was out of ink. And Esther thought: Well, I usually bring a pen. But I didn't bring a pen, because I thought there would be a pen! -And so, she just got on the radio and asked Jared, if he had a pen, and he brought her a pen, and that's great. And then, Esther noticed this pen that has no ink in it has a stylus on the end of it, and Esther lost her stylus on the airplane.

So, is it possible that the universe is so on Esther's side, that that pen which was chosen randomly by Val, was chosen for the stylus? Because Esther can always get another pen. Now, that feels like reaching... that feels like, oh, trying to make something work in this Psycho-Babble-Mumble- Jumbo that Abraham is offering.

Or is it legitimately the universe, always working things out for you? Every single thing, right down to a minute- detail? And is ANYTHING really going wrong?

And so we're just saying: If we where standing in your physical shoes, we'd be aware of what we're offering vibrationally. And aware of what that's attracting, and that would be the emphasis that we would be applying: That's the guidance that we would be looking for!

HS:
So can you talk to me about pivoting out of a belief that is hard to get rid of?

Abe:
No, we can't! Because- well, you can't stop thinking about that thing you're thinking about! Stop and thinking about "I'm not going to think about that anymore!" -Yes you are!! You're doing it right now. Think about something else! But this is compelling. Well, then think about it- you know about prioritization. You know about checking the boxes. You know about there being multiple boxes. You know about the ones that mean the most to you! We are not in any way saying that anything that you're thinking about; any of that is wrong. Let it dovetail! But you got here, call that a day, and now get on with what you came to be about!

You were not born with an astrological chart, tattooed to your butt!

HS:
How do you know?

Abe:
We're wrong! (laughter) But you were born with a guidance system to let you calibrate the vibration of your moment, in thought with that of your inner being, with this specific magnificent guidance. And so let's pretend that that doesn't really work, -does it? Because, the cat is out of the bag: Law of Attraction does prevail!

But let's just assume that the only guidance you've got, is whatever is in those charts, that somebody figured it all out, before you got here and now it's your job to dig through all of the whatever it is, and decipher what your plan for this life is, as if you're not deciding it, every moment of every day!

So here's some questions. What are the kinds of things that someone, who has a really good grasp on all of that, what is it you would be asking of that information to provide you, in terms of guidance here and now? What do you want to know? "How long will I live?"

-"To be determined- by your desire, and alignment with it!"

from the youtube clip Abraham Hicks2024 - The TRUTH about BIRTH CHARTS The law of attraction

[Paradise-on-Earth]

Monogamie, Freedom, Deepest Alignment and Sexual Variety

Alignment is not about another one, but solely about YOUR focus:
"The object of attention to which you flow your love is much more irrelevant than anyone understands!"


HS:
I in my situation, I meet a variety of women which you spoke about, when you come into um... and I'm being honest, I can't... when you come into this experience, it's for the variety! And I've almost rationalized this in my head right now. That, maybe, a monogamous relationship or a marriage to one person, "forever" is an unreasonable expectation. Simply because every day I turn around, I see another beautiful woman, and I see a another beautiful woman, and I feel like "wow". I literally feel something sometimes... and so I'll stop, and just say "excuse me, you are gorgeous!" -and I don't mean anything. But I just want to leave, but I'm impressed by that.

And again, that's what I want to feel here! So I don't notice it as much there, so because I'm putting my attention to other places- like, out of habit in the past relationships... I mean I haven't been, you know, I guess, well, faithful. Simply because I rationalized in my head "well, hey I'm supposed to explore! And this is what I'm doing!" So now, I don't think it's a good thing. Because I feel like it's unfair to her, if I continue this way. And I want to... I want to commit! Be completely here, where... but then I feel like I'm limiting myself if I do that. If I stay. And there... so many other things to explore! Or people to explore.

Why would I stay, and just be happy forever? I'm supposed to stay forever. For 50, 60 more years! I guess you know, and not explore the rest of this? (Audience starts to laugh) I'm... I'm not sure if that was a question, like... I'm not sure if I can be happy here, and stay here forever. I can do that, but then I feel like, now if I decide to stay here and do that, I miss out on all this wonderful other things to explore!

Abe:
Well, you're expressing the sentiment of approximately 50% of your population, or or more! Well, let's sort this out.

First of all, it's important to acknowledge that there is not a giant right and wrong in the sky, and that the rules that have been written about that, that have been interpreted through man, are always interpreted through the lens of what is seen to be most beneficial to the one, who is interpreting it. And so,

there really is not a right or wrong about whether you are monogamous or whether you have multiple relationships!

There just isn't.
And you are right about the variety, because the variety stimulates your awareness of what you want! And through all of it, you expand and become more. But we want to say, that it IS possible to- because you said as you began here today, something really significant: You said "I want to love this person." And while it sounded like what you were saying is: "I want to love this person. I want to be able to omit all of the others, and just give my undivided attention to this one person, and I want this one person to satisfy me. I want to just love this one person!" -did you notice how we took it to mean, what it really means? Which is: "I want to be in a continual state of love." In other words,

the object of attention to which you flow your love is much more irrelevant than anyone understands!

And this speaks to what we've been talking about: The backwardness of all relationships, but especially these love relationships. Because what most people are saying is: "I want to feel this love. And you need to be everything that I need you to be: So that I can feel it.

And no one, no singular person has the capacity to be all of that, for any other person!

So then we say to you: You're wanting to take the responsibility for that alignment!
It's not an object of attention, that aligns you that you want you want alignment and when you show yourself that you can find that alignment, then everything in your experience is going to take on a different level of necessity.

Now we're not trying to talk you out of exploring all of the variety, and enjoying it. That's not the point of this conversation! The point of this conversation is to help you to realize, that what you're reaching for- this deep level of alignment- is possible.

And that, when you find it, then often these relationships that you enter into, these monogamous relationships can be so rich and delicious because you're standing in one place with one person so to speak, while the two of you are evolving together. So there's never-ending of the exploration! So, it doesn't get boring!

In other words, you keep discovering more depth and breadth in the relationship that you have.
Which isn't possible in the relationships as you're moving from place to place!

You already said, it doesn't last very long. Because it's not based upon what's coming from the inside! It's me, trying to affect the inside from the outside. So now, relative to the subject of what's right for any individual in terms of having one partner, or many- as we said, there's not a giant right or wrong in the sky about it. But here's what goes wrong:

So, most men are really seeking freedom. And we're teaching you, that the freedom that you're seeking is the freedom from the bondage of resistance that is always self-imposed. But most men are looking for Freedom, most women are looking for security. Security, that they'll only find when they come into alignment with who they are. But they're looking for it through a partner. So, she's looking for more security, which makes him feel less free. He's looking for more freedom, which makes her feel less secure. And so, that's the basis of most contention in most relationships!

So let's say that you meet someone, and you've already decided that you really like exploration on all subjects. You don't want to spend all your time with one person, in regard to anything! And you've shown yourself, that you can be tuned in, tapped in, turned on- and you're experiencing a lot of variety on a lot of fronts, and you're really happy. And you're offering a vibration about that, that is purely that vibration: It's who you are. It's what you want! And: it's what you offer, vibrationally. Well, if it's what you offer vibrationally- the law of attraction is going to reach out there, and find you someone who resonates with that perfectly!

And if you decide that you want a long-term relationship, it's a long-term relationship with someone who agrees with you, on this subject of variety. So, there's no contention! There's no feeling less than Who You Are! It takes a really tuned in tapped in turned on person, to be able to be in a relationship with somebody else... in other words, that kind of relationship that you're looking for would require two people who are not looking to each other for their reassurances! Who have found their reassurances through alignment with source.

And then, what you're doing in terms of your physical behavior and activity, is irrelevant.
Are you hearing that? The the more you're depending upon the other person to be what you need them to be, so that you can feel better- that is at the basis of trying to control the behavior of others! In other words, there's nothing in all of the world more uncomfortable, than to try to control the behavior of someone, who intends something differently than what you want them to intend!

So let's go back to this. So, if you are a person who has decided that you want variety, and you are true to that intention , not feeling guilty about it, not worrying about it, not feeling that you're doing something wrong- but really in vibrational alignment with it, the universe will bring you a partner who feels the same way. And you will live happily ever after, together.
But let's say that that's what you want, but it's not what you think you want. But you worry about it, and you want it, but you've had so many relationships with other people who didn't want you to have it, and so:

You want it- but. You want it, but. You want it, but. You want it, but! You want it, but... so, you're going to attract to yourself someone who is a vibrational match to the very thing that you worry about! and then you're going to have that sort of strain or struggle going on, within YOU!

Let's say, it's two people who have decided that they are happier in a committed relationship.
Let's say that they're aware of the pitfalls in a lot of sexual exploration. You've had enough variety that you're pretty much clear about what you want: You're no longer looking for other people to fulfill you. You found a way to find alignment with who you really are, and so, you are really in alignment with the idea of having an experience with someone, that is richer and deeper. It's what you want, and you're not feeling like you're missing out. You're not feeling that you're losing out- because you have brought yourself into alignment with that idea, so, that you're offering that pure intention well.

Then the law of attraction in the universe will deliver to you someone, who feels just like that, you see!

-No right or wrong in it. You really do want the universe to match you up with people, who are in alignment with your intentions! And what goes wrong in this relationship-thing is, that you've never really allowed yourself to think and believe and be, the way you think you want to be! You've got mixed energy all over the place about that subject, you see! And a way to bring that together is pretty much through meditation: quiet the mind and allow. Or, every time it comes up, come into alignment!

In other words, every time you see a beautiful woman, and you think: "oh, I would like to taste a little bit of that!" -and then, you feel the guilt wash over you- you feel the negativity of it. And you've gone right to the specifics! -Oh yeah. People die over this! People get shotguns over this. Uh, people get divorce over this! In other words, all the specifics begin to loom in you- go more General. (Then) you say: "Wait a minute, wait a minute! We aren't assigned a specific partner, in anything! The more we interact with others, the more broad and wonderful our experience is." And as you bring yourself into that better feeling, general place, again and again and again- so that your vibration is clear, and your vibration is pure, you see... The thing that you're grappling with here, you can hardly believe that you're visiting with Source energy.

...And, that Source energy is not only agreeing, but encouraging you to do something, that the majority of the population has been telling you for a very long time is a wrong thing!
But the majority of the population has been believing, that their happiness is dependent upon your behavior, in a lot of different ways, that have bound you!

We want you to give up your need to please others, relative to all things!
Because you will never have the happiness that you told us you want- the alignment and the love that you told us that you want, as long as you're resenting others, holding you in behavioral patterns that are not true to your desire.

That's huge!! That's huge, you see!


So the audience is all sitting here, most of them are completely traumatized, because they have resigned themselves to living within relationships, in order to please another. But we're not kidding you you're never going to be happy in a relationship that you feel, binds you, you see! And you are the only one who can unleash the binding. Because it's not about your behavior, and it's not about how many women you sleep with. It's not about any of that!

It's about what you do with your mind, that allows the fullness of who you are, to be present!

And it'll surprise you, how- when you come into complete alignment with who you are, how much less interaction you need with all those other people, that you were looking for, for that support to begin with!

In other words, when you tune in, to who you are, and you really allow source to flow through you, you're happy in a monogamous relationship. You're happy in any relationship setting, that you establish!
-Did we get there for you?

HS:
Yeah, yeah! Um, I think I got it. I'm going to have to listen to this a few times, over and over, uh...

Abe:
We were visiting with someone a few years ago, who had come to the decision that he was no longer happy with his current mate. And said in rather clear terms, that he was ready to move on, and wanted to know what we thought about it. And we said of course, "you can move on, and of course, there are a lot of other wonderful things for you to explore. But since we're aware of everyone that exists in the environment, and aware of what's in your Vortex, we said to this person: "If you move out of this relationship, looking for the things you want, you're less likely to find all of the things that life has shown you that you want, in any one place more, than this place! In other words, what we were saying:

-While you're dissatisfied when you move over >> there, you'll be dissatisfied because << these things will be missing.
-And when you move over << there, you'll be dissatisfied because >> these things are missing!

When you move over there, you'll be dissatisfied because these things are missing and there are a lot of beautiful faces around, that are missing so many of the other wonderful things that are really important to you: like really caring about the physical well-being of your daughter. In other words, your relationship is so much richer than you have yet allowed yourself to discover it. Because, you haven't been looking at it from the eyes of source!

Which is what you said that you wanted. So, we really would like the first question, that is so big, to be resolved within you, before you even move to the second one! Because once that first question is resolved, and you're in alignment with who you are, we think the second question will look entirely different to you.

HS:
All right, that makes sense so what what I gather right now is pretty much I can move and go into a different situation but if I'm looking for that one particular person, to hold everything to keep me in line, I'll never find it!

Abe:
Because that one particular person is YOU! And your relationship with your Inner Being!


from the youtube-clip "Abraham Finally Opens Up About Cheating And Multiple Partners! Abraham Hicks 2024"

-A sidenote about the name of this clip, that "Abe would finally open up" about the topic: It is not so, that Abe would have ever resisted to give this answer! There are much older workshops than this one, where they have already said the very same thing.