The Truth Shall Set You Free

By Enoch Mamo

The Truth Shall Set You Free is a book that will help you overcome illusions of fear, anger, hate, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, perturbation, and discontent. It will guide you through beautiful poems and essays on how to replace those low and self-limiting emotions with true self-discovery that will lead you to a life of happiness, courage, confidence, abundance, contentment, and peace of mind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Apr 19, 2018
• ISBN: 9781982200688

Enoch Mamo

If a snake gets into the home of a snake charmer, he will tame the serpent and may also keep it for his show. If the same snake gets into the home of another villager, they would run out scared asking for help, there will be chaos and fear until the snake is killed or removed from that home. Just like the snake charmer who puts on a show by playing with dangerous snakes that can kill, I tame the negative thoughts, emotions and experiences and transform them into lessons that I share with the rest of the world. Every year many people suffer or die from manifestation of these negative thoughts, emotions and experiences in form of; mental illness, drug addictions, murders and suicides, but if handled wisely, they can be transmuted into sources of strength, good health, joy and abundance. It is not the light that got me here, it is the darkness, my ignorance is the source of my wisdom.

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Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Opinion of Others versus Self-Confidence

Self-Confidence

The Truth about Self-Confidence and Self-Esteem

Focusing on What Others Think of Us

Dominant Opinions

Opinion of Others and Attack

The Girl with the Addiction Problem

The Ego’s Forgetful Identity

What If

Let Not Anything outside Determine Your Dazzle

What is Real or not Real

Bring Dazzle and Confidence to Your Work

Peace of Mind—Abandoning the Opinion of Others

Better Courage Takes Me to Hell Than Fear Takes Me to Heaven

Watching Kipchoge Keino at the Rio Olympics

Confidence and Faith to Achieve Success

Chapter 2: Self-Expression and Public Speaking

Self-Denial

Self-Expression versus Public Speaking

The Illusion of the Introvert

Celebrity Blessing

Brothers

Chapter 3: The Two Energies

Why Do You Allow Your Day to Be Poisoned?

Accepting Others’ Unique Contribution

Blame Game and the Illusion of Suffering

Self-Acceptance and Love

And the Topic Is Love Today

Your Very Existence Has Influence

What Happened the Days You Felt His Absence?

It Is Okay to Have Bad Thoughts

I Know So Many Josephs

Bad Relationship Clinging

Life as a Canvas

Chapter 4: The Present Moment

Appreciating and Living in the Now

Acceptance of Infinite Intelligence

Today Is The Best Day of My Life

Checking the Quality of Your Present Moment

Means and Waste

Our Time Is More Important Than Our Task

DECISION MAKING PROCESS

Wasting Your Life Pleasing Others

How Do You Avoid or Get Rid of Mr. Yes?

Slave of Good Deeds

The Moon Staring at Me

Chapter 5: Fear and Worry

Living with Fear and Worry

Anxiety/Worry/Fear as Creations in an Invisible World

Anxiety as a Result of an Attempt to Control

Fear That Paralyzed the Hero

Removing Anxiety/Worry

Chapter 6: What Is Poverty?

The Mud Pool

Poor Thoughts

Never Focus on Lack

Begging for Favors and Other Things

Ingratitude

Independence

Creation and Underused Power of Mind

Creation, Wastage, and Universal Law

Celebration Instead of Thanks

What Is Gratitude?

Life Is about Celebrating Small Moments

Chapter 7: Victim Identity

Drop of Blood

The Weak Target

Different Mentality of Solving Problems

Reclaiming Your Kingdom and Power

Faith and wisdom to reclaim your kingdom

Stop focusing on your past performances

The Power of Your Choices and Consequences

Living Fully in This World

End of Illusions

Spiritual Orgasm

Chapter 8: Power of Belief and Faith

The Knife (Power) in Your Hands

The Relationship between Your Dhabbinn and the Knife (Power)

Faith

The Relationship between Dwelling Thoughts or Faith and Your Realities

Hope and Faith

Faith but Not Strength

Half of Americans Have a Better Voice

The Power of the Healed

Change—Getting Rid of Illusions

Two Weeks of Diet and Change

What Does the Revelation of Invisible Change Mean?

Chapter 9: Being Yourself and Conformity

The Best Person You Can Imitate

Futile Imitation

Finding Your Talent

Modern Education System and Worship of Mentors

More Than Grades

Being a Success as Yourself

Life’s Equation

The World Within

Looking within and Its Repercussion

Ideas and Talents—They Are Already Within

The Knowledge of Truth and Its Use

Nonconformity in the Modern World

Focusing on Past Teachings

No Writer Is Made in a Classroom

Nonconformist

Better Comes after Nonconformity

Self-Trust

The Architect

Seeking Group Identity

Chapter 10: Living in the Real World

Proclamation

Giving up Searching and Seeking

Desperation Voted out on X Factor

Listening to the Rain

Living Like a Powerless Victim

When the World You Created Looks Imposed

Seeking Pain and Hurt

Chapter 11: What Is Not Life

Modern Exploitation

Becoming Enslaved by the System

Substance Abuse and the Vicious Cycle

Puffing the Smoke

Smoking or Doing Drugs over Anger, Stress, or Challenge

Modern Medicine

Chapter 12: True Living

The City and the Star

Components of Success and Failure

The Illusion of Roles

Changing Faces

Respect the One with Whom You Live Forever

What You Own Owns You

Never Leave Your Dhabbinn

The Most Important Is You

Chapter 13: The Illusion of Loss

One with Nothing to Lose Fears Loss Most

Wealth Disparity

You Are Not Fair to Your Employer

Ninety-Two Years Census Question

From Those Who Have Little

Chapter 14: Anger

Boxing Yourself

Anger and Rage

Anger and Hurt

No One Can Hurt the Sage

Introduction

This book is a result of my decision to stop reading the teachings of others in search of fulfillment, spiritual harmony, and the meaning of life and our existence. It forced me to live and interpret spirituality based on my own everyday life experience. I came to appreciate and value my intuition and accept my life with all its imperfections. I hope this book will also help you to stop the search and teach you to accept yourself and your present conditions in order to live a life full of happiness, abundance, health, and many other blessings.

The change in my attitude and perspective led me to enjoy the present moment rather than trying to achieve some state of spiritual or external fulfillment to start living a happy life. Sometimes I was stuck in a state of seeking or searching for a perfect life with a clear purpose based on external accomplishment to be achieved in the future. The search was a futile effort that wasted years of my life. I was not too sure what kind of life I was even seeking, and this made the present unpleasant and led me to endless searches in the hope of finding a perfect and enlightened future. It was a life of chasing after the wind.

I imagined, What if all the past and present great inventors, poets, and philosophers lived the same life? No one can get anywhere by analyzing the endless questions of life. That was the path of wastage that I was heading to, and many of us waste our precious time focusing on how to live life rather than just living life. My life was almost consumed by seeking and searching that had no end. It looked to me like the unconscious life is far better than perpetual seeking and searching to become enlightened or reach spiritual fulfillment. I felt I could only get there by accepting that I am already there. I finally decided I am enlightened and conscious enough today and that I am happy and content with my life. All enlightenment and wisdom will come from within now; no time or future accomplishment is necessary.

That decision to stop searching led me to immediately stop reading the book I had in my hand. This was because of my contempt of seeking wisdom and enlightenment outside of myself in order to feel complete. I reached a point where I felt that I had read and searched enough and had no more time to waste in searching for anything. I found God in that moment and in this lifestyle of mine with all the imperfections. I do not wish to see God in any other state of mind or lifestyle at a future date. Let all my wisdom, poems, truths, enlightenment, and consciousness come to me in this very moment and state of mind, or I absolutely do not need them. These qualities are here with me now at this very moment. I despised the idea of looking forward to a better tomorrow through wasting the present, and I felt, in this very moment, I am one with the infinite intelligence within. This is not a favor that I seek from anyone, and it is not something that will be given to me because of my good behavior, or enlightenment, or wisdom, or the amount of books I read, or my discipline and the time I spend on meditation. As a matter of fact, I reduced the time I was spending on meditation to prove this point. I said enough with life-consuming thoughts and teachings that tell you, You are not good enough. I said to myself and the universe, Take me as I am! Nothing will ever make me deserving of grace. I am already in a state of grace, regardless of my lifestyle and situations. It is the ego that creates this illusion of seeking the grace through living a particular way or gaining a certain level or wisdom in order to receive grace. We just have to recognize and accept this truth and have trust in the existence of grace within us. I hope this book will guide you into discovering the abundant power, grace, treasures, and intelligence within you. Your conditions and situations have no power to bestow you with this eternal grace or take it away from you. Your simple recognition will make you see and experience this grace. Once you recognize this truth, you cannot un-recognize it, but your unconscious life can create the illusion of lacking this grace. I believe that knowing this truth will set you free.

Many people who achieve extraordinary success in life are those who have overcome personal challenges. This is what Steve Jobs called the gap in one of his televised interviews. This allows you to see beyond the conventional or ordinary world. After deeply looking within, you become one with your spiritual world, and creativity oozes out of you. I am extraordinarily blessed and lucky to have been given the opportunity after what other people would term as challenges or failures, and now I call them blessings. I think the challenges teach you to look at life differently and give you that gap to step back and change your perspective. So, much is expected from me because I was blessed with so many incredible experiences as a result of the challenges and soul-searching I went through. I was given the wisdom to transmute my struggles to opportunities.

My past unconscious life is part of the journey to enlightenment. It is as important as the enlightened or conscious part of my life. This journey started right from the time I was born. All the events led me to the purification of my soul and shading off of what is not life. Each part of the journey is as important as the other. I must have supremely played my past role of unconscious life; that is how I got my ideas and life perspectives I share in this book. At the time, the past life looked like a failure and meaningless, but that was the path that led me to purification. I hope to impart those lessons to other people who are going through challenging times.

One of the main teachings of this book is personal responsibility; it means not blaming other people, God, or the devil for the problems in your life. This responsibility comes with empowerment and wisdom. You will have a better understanding of the power and effects of your thoughts, beliefs, and faith. It will teach you to find enlightenment and right-mindedness in your current circumstances or life situation, and this will enable you to discover and use your power to create a good life for yourself and others. Your life’s problems are not because you don’t have power or because you don’t have faith; they are mainly because you don’t have the right-mindedness or knowledge of the universal laws.

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Opinion of Others versus Self-Confidence

Self-Confidence

One of the most important character attributes

To have in life is courage and confidence.

No matter what you do or who you are,

Confidence is vital in your endeavor.

If you lose your job because you refused to be intimidated

Or, because of your confidence, your boss is perturbed

And wants you to break down and feel inferior and subdued,

Stand your ground and never compromise your self-worth.

You will find a better job that accepts your courage.

If you lose your marriage because your spouse

Undermines yourself worth and confidence,

Don’t be afraid to walk away to start a better life.

If you have people around who are offended by your confidence,

Then offend them more, for they don’t deserve to be your friends

If there are people around you who are not confident

And you bring down yourself to look like them,

Then you are destroying yourself and the little confidence they have.

Instead, lift them up to the throne you all deserve.

I prefer to eat grass and live with animals than lose my confidence

To keep my job or the false comfort of life.

I prefer to sleep in caves than lose my confidence

To keep my home or job or the illusory status.

Why are we so afraid? Why do we bring down ourselves,

Giving away our dignity and self-worth for others’ sake?

Show me a woman or a man whose life is miserable

Because he or she is too confident and remained respectable,

But I will show you countless people who lead a miserable life

Because they lacked confidence to stand up for themselves.

Be the first man to die of hunger and poverty

Because you refused to sell your integrity.

It has never happened, and it never will.

You have one life to live and live it well.

The worst thing in life is not material poverty

But loss of one’s worth and a spiritual bankruptcy.

Material wealth can come and go or change over time.

In bad or good times, your spiritual wealth will thrive.

If you have spiritual wealth, you are always rich,

Happy, confident, and healthy, so heavens you can reach.

It is the best wealth you can have in this world,

And every other blessings and success will come.

There is no single justification for our fear and lack of confidence,

For all of us were gifted with this eternal grace.

It is not given to one person more and to another less,

But the difference is in how much dirt has covered our grace.

How much have you covered the sunshine within your chest?

And prevented yourself from becoming the best?

How much talent are you holding back from the world

By preventing confidence from shining through your heart?

Confidence is not something you gain from without.

It is already there within. Just remove the dirt.

Bring out the eternal light and make your world bright.

A victory is guaranteed, so don’t give up the fight.

The Truth about Self-Confidence and Self-Esteem

Self-confidence means what you think of yourself, the opinion you have about yourself. It is never about the opinion of others about you or what they think of you. You are at the center, and nobody else is at the center with you. Self-confidence is purely what you think of yourself. As other people are entitled to their thoughts, you are also entitled to yours. The only thought you should care about at all is yours. That means the world to you, and that is your only and primary world. You live there. Your confidence lives there.

You can control only your thoughts. What others think of you should not be your concern. They also live in the mental world that they chose create. Take care of your world and let them take care of theirs. Your self-confidence comes from within and flows outward, never from without to within. So never expect other people to boost your self-confidence or give it to you.

The mistake we always make is we look at self-confidence as a measure of how and what people think of us. We think in terms of how people see us, whether they see us as confident or not confident. Therefore, we say to ourselves, They think I am confident, or otherwise. We are only concerned about how people think of us rather than what we think of ourselves. It is not about our confidence that we worry, but it is what people think of our confidence that we worry about. You create your self-image based on how people see you or what they say about you. So, if in the past people described you as lacking self-confidence, then you adopt those opinions to create an identity for yourself.

Your self-confidence is always there; it is part of your nature and everybody’s. As kids, we were not aware of other people’s judgments, so we played and acted without much concern about their opinion. We never thought about having or not having self-confidence. Your self-confidence never leaves you, even when you thought you lacked it. Instead, the shining power of your self-confidence depended on how much you covered it with the opinion of others. The times that you feel less confident are because you are reflecting on the opinion of others and what you believe they are thinking of you rather than the absence of self-confidence. It is the opinion of others that you are worried about, and that worry just veils your self-confidence more. If you don’t see the blue sky or the sun covered by the cloud, your doubt cannot make them disappear. Your ignorance cannot change a fact but just gives you the wrong perception, and likewise, your understanding cannot change the fact that inalienable self-confidence exists within you.

The truth is that you can only control what you think and not what other people think of you or the world. You cannot control how much confidence other people think you have. People’s opinions change frequently, and they have thousands of thoughts a day. What they think is their right, and all you should focus on is what you think about yourself and your self-image. Worrying about the opinions of every person that you come across disintegrates your soul. You will not have an anchored faith and foundation from which your self-image is created. This results in frequent change of self-confidence, depending on the opinion of others and whether they say things to you that