I have spent many years reflecting on the remarkable advances of science. Within the short space of my own lifetime, the impact of science and technology on humanity has been tremendous. Although my own interest in science began with curiosity about a world, foreign to me at that time, governed by technology, it was not very long before the colossal significance of science for humanity as a whole dawned on me - especially after I came into exile in 1959. There is almost no area of human life today that is not touched by the effects of science and technology.

One of the most crucial aspects of life is the notion of freedom and the notion of bondage. Ultimately, our goal is to experience freedom, but to understand what freedom is we first have to understand what bondage is.

What does it mean to be free and what does it mean to be in bondage? To be in bondage is to be stuck in this or that possibility, having lost the ability to choose from an infinite range of responses.

What is the bondage to?
The bondage is always to our own boundaries, to our own beliefs and conditioned responses. Boundaries and beliefs are nothing more than ideas or concepts that we have committed to and accepted as truth. And when they are as rigid and inflexible as concrete, we cannot see past them. They become the prison walls that we inadvertently construct around ourselves.

Break through the Barriers and Experience a Life of Unlimited Potential. Can you really believe everything you see? Can you always trust everything you’re told?

Don’t we sometimes see what isn’t there or often fail to see what is? Like fleas in a flea circus, we have been trained to believe that some invisible dome defines how high we can soar, how long we will live, how healthy we’ll be, and so forth. And without questioning, we live by these self-imposed limitations that we’re totally unaware of, honor these imagined boundaries, and follow the beliefs that our sages, geniuses, entrepreneurs, and heroes have all told us to ignore.

Are you a friend to you? Do you even like yourself? If the answer to these questions is yes, you’re in good shape. If you hesitate, don’t know, or answer no, then you have to get a handle on the fact that how you connect with yourself spiritually, emotionally, and even physically is vitally important.

We’ve been taught not to love ourselves because it’s supposedly selfish. No, it’s not (unless it’s at the exclusion of everyone else). We have to love ourselves; in fact, I believe that we never reach our true spiritual growth unless we can take joy in our own company. We need downtime with ourselves more than ever now in a world that’s so full of noise and stress.