We all desire to be free

 

Ostensibly western society is the freest society and in terms of rights it certainly is, so how free do you feel?

 

The answer of course is that to be free one must understand what freedom is and what it isn’t.

 

Freedom isn’t freedom.

 

Freedom is in fact slavery.

 

As Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan hymns “you have to serve someone.”

 

In other words, we are a composite.

 

The animal soul, the body, truly desires no servitude whatsoever, just instinctual gratification of instinctual needs.

 

However animals are not really happy, they are merely at best not in pain.

 

A person is far from an animal.

 

In fact, we are in essence God;

 

Could God be happy if he has no pain?

 

No.

 

For happiness as our sages teach us, the very reason why God created the world, was in order to exercise his love, his goodness, to have people to give to.

 

So for a good soul, all you need is to do good, to help someone and presto you will become free.