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Freedom Doesn't Mind Its Chains: Revisioning Sex, Body, Emotion, & Spirituality

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"Pain comes with Life, and what better use to make of pain than to deepen our faith? Instead of turning our pain into suffering, we can allow it to fuel our way into a deeper life, a life abundant with faith." ~ Robert Augustus Masters

Freedom Doesn't Mind Its Chains is a soul-soothing read with deep insights into the true nature of reality. Initially mind cleansing (I kept taking these deep cleansing breaths), I found myself almost releasing a heavy burden of not being understood as Robert Augustus Masters provided complete understanding for human complexity. In this book he fully embraces an almost radical honesty as he unveils a wide range of emotions and explores each fully in a poetic essay explanation.

He explains joy during suffering in unique ways, addresses how we can stop feeding our dragons and turns the world inside out in order to explain the unexplainable. The chapter on thanking God for dragons was quite enlightening.

"The dragon is a needed adversary, a fitting challenge that tests our readiness to encounter and wisely use the treasure we seek. Instead of viewing such tests just as burdens or adversity, we would do well to be grateful for them, regardless of our fear." ~ pg. 31

Freedom Doesn't Mind Its Chains is truly a fascinating study of human life in all its complexity. Robert Augustus Masters' writing is highly focused, always entertaining and beyond poetic. Stories, poetry and in-depth analysis convey his message effectively and keep your attention from the first word to the last. I also enjoyed Divine Dynamite. Reading these two books will make you feel deeply understood and will increase your spiritual awareness of what really matters.

~The Rebecca Review