Today's daily breath is supported by Blinkist.

Blinkist takes the key takeaways from thousands of non-fiction books

and condenses them down into just 15 minutes that you can read or listen to, including

my book The Seven you for joining me. Freedom is the natural state of existence,

knowing that we are aware, here and now.

Virtual reality isn't reliable when it comes to lasting happiness, security,

fulfillment, love and other things we cherish.

Some people enjoy very few of those things. And even when we get more than our fair share, we're always

worried about possible loss. It's a bad deal to rely on what is unreliable.

In a way, that's the difference

between happiness and joy.

Happiness is always for a reason and joy. You have no no reason but you're happy anyway. You wouldn't take a job

from an employee who says that he will toss a coin every day to determine if you stay or get fired. But we cling to virtual reality

with no guarantee that things will work out because the reality is that what we call the known is the past.

It has already happened.

It's the prison of our past conditioning.

The unknown, the unpredictable, is our true home.

So remember, if you cling to the known, this is a form of bondage. The worst form since the widely held belief

is that there's no alternative. Real freedom isn't something you struggle to achieve, hope for or feel unlikely to win.

Freedom is our natural state if you don't imprison ourselves. I'm reminded of a poem by Rumi who says, why do you live in

prison when the door is wide open? And the reason we live in the prison, even when the door is wide open, is the door is invisible.

It's in consciousness. It's our old outound beliefs and conditioning.

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