FR
A strange thing happens at some point along certain paths.
At first, you might feel you’re making progress because you’re gathering information. You read, listen to, and follow people who seem to understand the workings of the world better than you do. And indeed, some do open doors.
Then, as time goes on, something changes. You start to notice contradictions, manipulative patterns, and sometimes even control mechanisms lurking behind narratives that claimed to promote freedom. And that can hurt, because you feel as though you’ve been deceived.
But in reality, this step is often a healthy one.
For the problem is not just false guides or dubious narratives. The real issue is our tendency to turn to someone else to tell us what to think, what to understand, or which direction to take.
The system adapts very well to this. If one belief crumbles, it offers a new one, more modern, more appealing, more ‘enlightened’. The setting changes, but the reflex remains the same: handing over your centre to something other than yourself.
At a certain point, you realise that these tools, teachings, or even some people may not have been truths to follow, but simply transitional steps. Temporary supports.
And there comes a time when these supports have to fall away.
Not out of anger. Not out of rejection. Simply because they are no longer needed.
That’s when something becomes more stable. More straightforward, too. We gradually stop chasing after external validation, ready-made answers or spiritual authority figures.
We become quieter inside. More lucid. Less easily impressed.
And perhaps true autonomy begins right there.
© La Pensine Mutine. All rights reserved. Reproduction prohibited.
