Set Yourself Free – By Bob Proctor

Do you think of Shakespeare as being a highbrow author who wrote plays designed to bore high school students?  Do you view his writings as something for other people – writings that had nothing to do with practical problems of life?  If your answer is yes, think again.  Shakespeare was not a way out, but a way in kind of guy.

I quote, “Every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity”.
How can you apply his advice in a practical manner to today?

Every bondman
- what does he mean?  Every person who feels they are in bondage in any way … who feels trapped by circumstances … who seems bound to failure, poverty, sickness … who seems held back from what would make their life complete and good.

Every bondman bears in his own hand
- that is he possesses, he has within himself the power to
cancel
or get rid of his captivity, his seeming bondage.

You can be free.  You have the power within you to remove the shackles, which bind you.

Paul Carus wrote in The Gospel of Buddha, People are in bondage, because they have not removed the idea of ‘I’.

Leland Val Van De Wall wrote, “Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness”.

The only power our problems can have over us is the power we give to them.  As Emerson wrote, “The only thing that can grow is the thing we give energy to”.

If you are in bondage, held captive by problems, you have the power in your own hands to set yourself free.  You are the only one who can set you free.

Shakespeare said it, I believe it and that settles it … for me.