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[Eckhart Aurelius Hughes]

Eckhart Aurelius Hughes is the author of In It Together: The Beautiful Struggle Uniting Us All. He also runs a free mentoring program that guarantees success..


There is nothing you must do.

If you are choosing to do it, then, by definition, it's not something you must do.

Otherwise, (i.e. if you aren't choosing it), then it's not something you are doing.

It might be something your body is doing outside of your control, but, if it is truly out of your control, meaning it will happen no matter what you do, then it's not something you are doing.

This is why we say, "my heart beats," rather than say, "I beat my heart."

If you aren't choosing it then you aren't doing it. And, if you are choosing it, then, by definition, it's not something you must do; it's something you are choosing to do.

Spiritual slavery is a comforting but ultimately miserable and unfulfilling lie. You are spiritually free, whether you like it or not. All the spiritual chains, cages, prisons, slavemasters, and roadblocks are imaginary hellishness. The alcoholic is comforted with the lie, "I have to drink", rather than the happy free truth, "I am choosing to drink." The same goes for the overeating food addict or the cheating spouse an affair. Spiritually, you aren't ever really a slave. You are getting exactly what you want, meaning what you choose.

Happiness is accepting and loving that fact, rather than hiding from it in dishonest misery. While the miserable person miserably pretends they are slave that must do what they choose to do, the honest free-spirited person happily acknowledges that they are always in self-control, that they always get exactly what they want when it comes to their choices, and that they only ever do what they want to do and never ever do what they don't to do. What bliss! What invincible bliss!

The dishonest illusion of spiritual slavery (e.g. non-transcended addiction or being a slave to bodily feelings like fear or hunger, or judgmentally shoulding all over oneself) is hell on Earth, but its opposite (i.e. realized, honest spiritual freedom, a.k.a. self-discipline) is invincible heavenly bliss.

No matter what they do, and no matter what cards life throws their way, they happily say, "I am choosing to do this. And, when it comes my choices, I always get exactly what I want, meaning what I choose."

With love
Eckhart Aurelius Hughes

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Eckhart Aurelius Hughes is the author of In It Together: The Beautiful Struggle Uniting Us All. He also runs a free mentoring program that guarantees success.. Success at your chosen goal is guaranteed, whether it is a financial goal, fitness goal, or any other ambitious but at least theoretically possible goal. If your goal is to become a millionaire, it will happen if you follow his system, guaranteed. If you weigh 350 lbs and your goal is to lose 200 lbs and get 6-pack abs, it will happen if you follow his system, guaranteed.

[TashaMPSullivan]

I love this. I had never thought about choices and life that way until I started reading your posts, and then your book. It has made me think about the things I do and why I do them.

[Goodness Richman]

Our existence is associated with our freewill. Must and Do cannot go together, because must means it'll happen without you doing, but you'll only do if you choose. So, inadvertently, there's nothing you must do and everything you should choose

[Sushan]

While I agree with you on most of the points that you pointed out here, I would like to add something from a medical point of view.

Yes, addiction is also a choice. And getting out of it also is a choice: That is why clinicians initially try to instil the need to quit in the addicts. But when it comes to quiting, it is quite difficult and unfair to expect from the addict to choose to not experience the withdrawal symptoms that will drag him/her back towards the bad habit. It is like we cannot control the heartbeat as it is biological. The symptoms occur due to biological reasons and no one can simply choose to not to experience them. But, yes, the really strong ones will be able to resist those symptoms, but that number will be quite few.