1/31/05: Question everything

Question beliefs, question authority, question dogma, question life, question society, question yourself.

We have been conditioned to believe certain things and be a certain way. By questioning what we and others hold as true, we can break through our societal conditioning, this hypnotic trance that we are living.  

Questioning everything doesn't mean that you should never accept anything as it is. Accept what you want, but accept it on faith with an inner knowledge that you are consciously choosing to accept it. Most people accept what others tell them merely because they have been conditioned to; they don't even realize they're accepting it.

As children, we accepted what our parents told us because they were our authority figures and we were taught to listen to our elders. How many times have you questioned your parent as a child and received this response: "Because I said so!"  

That may not have been enough for us the first few times we heard it, but after 16 or so years of hearing it, of being conditioned, we came to accept whatever they said merely because they said so.

The time has come to break out of the conditioned chains that bind you. The time has come to release your authentic self and be who you are, do what you do, and have what you have. Do it because YOU said so, and no one else.