We can do anything we want to do. We can be anything we want to be. Nevertheless, we can never want what we want (Joseph Campbell).
The Hindu philosophy preaches that unless we give up the desire to desire, we are not truly free. The need to achieve a goal is deeply rooted in basic human nature. Human beings are the first of their kind to dream. They envision a future, and execute a plan to fulfill it. The rest of human nature has developed in the process of achieving the desired goals. Human beings have defined themselves not just by their needs, but also by their wants (Karl Marx).
In order then, to be truly free, we must step outside of the train to the never-never land. We must relinquish our goals and posit our freedom. This freedom will take us back to what we came from; it will take us back to the first cause. Only this time, we will carry with us the unsurpassed gift of mankind � consciousness. We will experience the exquisite amalgam of the conscious and the unconscious.
The Hindus call it Brahmin. Christians call it Jesus. Muslims call it Allah. Freud calls it the Unconscious. Jung calls it the Collective Unconscious. Nietzsche calls it Zarathustra. I call it Freedom.
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