Morning Coffee Meditations

Living Outside of All the Boxes

Especially the ones I’ve created for myself

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“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking…” ~ Leo Tolstoy

I have always considered myself a freethinker. But sometimes I think that that is only in comparison to the rules that we have been given by society to live by. When you see the limitations of a system, you naturally start to look elsewhere for new answers… and on some level, I have defined this as freethinking.

But I’ve realized that even within that idea, we can get locked into the new ideas that we come across and now they become our own personal law. We create a new set of structures to live by. We have jumped out of “their” box only to have created a new one that we are now stuck in.

This brings me to my next bit of advice from our friend Leo Tolstoy:

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.” ~ Leo Tolstoy

Oh to just know nothing. The funny thing about this is that it is our language isn’t quite accurate. It is…