"Freedom is like a trustworthy friend that brings many gifts:

"• Freedom is seeing the sacred importance of this moment exactly as it is.
• Freedom is the inner peace and joy that come from loving compassion.
• Freedom is totally loving and accepting ourselves exactly as we are.
• Freedom is totally loving and accepting others exactly as they are.
• Freedom is finding gratitude for everything in life exactly as it is.
• Freedom is trusting ourselves, trusting life, and trusting who we are.
• Freedom comes from stepping into the present, again and again and again.

Freedom to Be Who We Really Are

"We have the freedom to meet each moment with the joy, love, kindness, compassion, and inner peace that abound inside our heart, or we can keep letting fear drag us around by the nose another five years. It is always our choice.

"Which will we choose today, now, in this moment? The time has arrived to gift ourselves with the freedom that is our true nature. With thoughts, stories, fears, and feelings taking up much less time, we feel more spacious inside, rich with time and ideas.

"Freedom is this simple. So simple, mind often overlooks it.

"Freedom fills us with the pure joy of being alive as we see the deeper truth: We are the conscious awareness, the awake, loving presence animating our body. And as conscious presence, we embody an unlimited capacity for joy, kindness, compassion, and inner peace. Knowing this brings constant delight in the process of life unfolding.

"Freedom is open and trusting, graciously receiving this moment, each moment, while it leans back to rest in our deep, deep connection with all living things.

"Freedom is the truth of life, including who we are in our heart.
Freedom is everywhere every moment, alive in all living things.
Freedom is the gift of this moment. Unwrap it now."