Do not let habit become a way of life for you. A habit doesn’t let you choose. You have free will so that you can make choices. Make new choices. You are free. Freedom is not to be scared of.

Be someone who chooses life. You can do it. You do not need to follow old programs. If you have had insecurities, you don’t have to keep them. You likely have been following old patterns. You may feel that life brings old patterns to you. It may be you, beloveds, who bring these old patterns along. You don’t want them, and yet you are wreaked with these old patterns again and again. We come back again to your perception. You have a habit of a way of seeing.

If you did not see the villain in someone’s actions or words, you would pass by the actions or words. You wouldn’t stop for them the way a taxi-cab picks up a fare. You wouldn’t find yourself locked in the past.

We can go back further. Whatever situation you find yourself in now, if you had not been locked in the past, you may well have not repeated the initial reactions that led you to the impasse of the situation you are in now. You brought out this difficulty. I won’t say you created it. I won’t say you invited it. And yet, had you from the beginning of this relationship not been coming from the past, the past would not have repeated itself.

You are no longer the child who once had to submit. If you were the oldest child who could boss his siblings around, you are no longer. If you were the youngest child who had to cower or flee, you are no longer.

But perhaps you are cowering still. Are you afraid you won’t be liked? Are you afraid that you would lose? What would you lose? Affection? Perhaps affectation.

And what might you gain when you declare your independence from the past? Independence of past enactments would be a lovely thing. No past build-up. No accumulation. No more old carried-over keeping the past active in the present.

If you have been a bully, desist. If you have been the bullied, change your posture. No longer do you want to be victor nor victim. You do not need to sell yourself short. You can be wise and wonderful now. Be wise and wonderful now.

Whatever you have been or appeared to be, you can stand with your back straight. Whatever habit of presentation you have had of yourself, you can be true to yourself now. You are not obliged to be a derelict of yourself. You do not have to abandon yourself to past patterns and perceptions.

We are speaking of something very basic to human life now. Much of humanity have become like oxen who carry old burdens and follow the same path. But you are not an ox, and you can be new right now. You can be your true self right now.

The Great Ones did not carry the past along with them. They chose new. They emptied themselves of the past and walked straight and true through life. They walked without encumbrance. This is how they walked forward. They stepped out of the past. They released themselves from their childhood. They set themselves free from the past. Their personal childhoods no longer mattered. They did not wear heavy coats of winter in summer. They threw off the cloaks of the past. What hang-ups did the Great Ones have? They left hang-ups behind. They became sovereign of themselves.