Freedom from Confusion

Even on our good days, some of us continuously struggle with our beliefs and values. They keep us constantly searching for things -- money, power, fame, and respect -- to make us feel good about ourselves.

It seems the more we search for things outside of our minds, the more we embrace our beliefs and values. This makes our search for enlightenment or clear mind an outside one, because we want to know how we fit in with the outside world.

On our inexorable search outside of our minds for clarity, we move further away for our consciousness of enlightenment. The further we go from our essence, the more we rely on our existing beliefs and values to provide us with the clarity to perceive ourselves and the outside world without distortions.

One of the greatest calamities that we face in our lives is the loss of self; our unconditioned mind. In the darkness of our minds, we only see what our beliefs and values tell us we're seeing. We are blinded by the darkness, which prevents us from perceiving ourselves as already possessing completeness.  

Most of us find it too  difficult to accept our completeness, because our current beliefs and values confirm our incompleteness. And it's our lack of awareness of our completeness, I AM, that causes us to perceive ourselves as needy, unworthy, and incomplete. 

When we become overcome with self-condemnation, we want to change something about us to make us more acceptable to the outside world. Unfortunately, the beliefs and values telling us to change are dulled by toxicins.

Each time we condemn ourselves, we destroy some of the power we have to revalue our lives. And we also further denigrate our perceptions of power by diminishing the I AM in our minds. In other words, the I AM we are aware of being becomes helpless, powerless.


The I AM is the awareness that I AM always greater than what I am aware of being. It's the unconditioned consciousness in our minds, which has no limitations and exists as just being. It doesn't have to be anything to exist within our minds.

Unfortunately, whether we are aware of it or not, we are always expressing our awareness of I AM. On some occasions, we believe I AM poor. I AM rich. I AM ill. I AM black, brown, yellow or white. I AM successful or a failure. I AM all that my beliefs and values allow me to be.

Similarly, whether we like it or not, the I AM power we believe is outside of our minds is actually in our minds. We can never separate ourselves from this limitless power, even as we conceive ourselves to be less than the power inside our minds.

Our powers of mind free us from self-condemnation and powerlessness. We are free to detach ourselves from historical machinations designed to confuse us about who we are. This is the freedom that's required for us to go beyond our current beliefs and values, which are responsible for the confusion.

The powers in our minds can free us of the distortions causing us live in the world's darkness. We can enlighten our minds simply by accepting that we are responsible for our beliefs and values. It's not the world and its leaders that are responsible for our confusion about ourselves and the outside world, it's our beliefs and values.

We must remain mindful of our awareness of being to know that others are powerless to free our minds. This is something we must do for ourselves. There's no mystery to the way we think and live. We are always expressing who we are according to our beliefs and values.


Whenever we accept that everything we currently know came from our Guides -- society, parents, and life experiences -- we place ourselves in the position to free our minds of this knowledge. And to accomplish this freedom, we cannot use the same beliefs and values responsible for our confusion.

Nevertheless, for us to free our minds, we must unlearn or remove the beliefs and values causing the confusion and our suffering.  And in our doing so, we must be willing to face the problems we are busy running from while collecting things to conceal our pain and suffering.

This search must be to the deeper parts of mind where the pain and confusion exist. There, in the midst of our pain and suffering, we must have the courage to feel the pain as part of our beliefs and values, and then understand and accept it as our own creations.

When we sit with our minds in complete silence, we clearly know there's no amount of money in the world that will remove the pain from child abuse, self-condemnation, rape, abandonment, shame, and the anger of feeling economically and socially defecated on by others. Our pain and suffering are personal.

Meanwhile, the secret to unleashing the powers in our minds is a simple one. All that is required of us is our willingness to let go of the beliefs and values causing us to seek freedom outside of our minds or from another person.

We also must be willing to accept that no other person in this world is greater than who we are in this moment. This requires us to take the action ourselves to remove the toxic belifes and values responsible for our confusion.

When we can accept the realization that all of the power in the universe is in our minds, then we can become one with the power responsible for creating the universe. 

So stop looking for another person to do for us what we already have the power to do for outselves.