FREE or NOT?

“The best things in life are free!”
“Nothing in life is free!”

Here we have a conflict of thoughts and if nothing is free then either the first statement is incorrect or we are screwed!

I'll speak on it as such ... we may not receive without giving is absolute and a fundamental law of all in existence. So if we term "free" as number 11 here then we think of getting something without making payment. But deep down we know we always give payment and thus the saying "Nothing in life is free."

Yet I give freely my words, my love, my knowledge, my smile, my embrace, many times my work. It is given freely and the payment I am to receive is the same free giving from others. We receive exactly what we give. The man who is a grouch with a scour on his face will never receive smiles freely on regular basis. The man who is uncompassionate will receive little compassion from those he knows. The liar will receive very little truth from others. The investor will never receive great value out of his investment unless he invests a great deal into it, be it money, personnel, trust, thought or a combination of all.
What we freely give we freely receive. It can be no other way. So what is the answer? If we don’t receive until we give first, then nothing is “technically” free, right?

That is the problem with pure intellectual technicalities. We want to see things in white and black and believe no other colors exist. We look at the unifying white and the disunited black and lose sight of all the colors in the prism with their own unique powers. We look at the good and the bad, the up and the down. We misunderstand white/black, and all color, are simply ALL colors of the same Prism. That good and bad are but individual view points. That there can be no up or down without points in-between the considered up or down.

Giving and receiving payment of any kind are one in the same. They are simply opposite ends of the same spectrum. Doing both freely is the greatest harmony one can bring to one’s self. This is why …
“The best things in life are free.”  

Simply think of a time someone offered you something freely and you felt you should not take it for whatever reason.  Many times you find the other person(s) insist … at times are visibly offended as it is seen as disrespect to those who subconsciously or consciously know it is against natural law to decline such a gesture.

Or how good you feel when you give something to someone freely out of good nature. And if you think about it carefully with clear and open thought surely the best things in your life to date most certainly came in times when you were giving and happy towards others.

You cannot have dark without light or light without dark. If everything was lighted exactly the same we would have no contrast to comprehend light from dark; or see at all. They are intertwined, one of the same just differentiating in degree. The room was fully lit! The room was dimly lit! The room was not lit at all! Or … The room wasn’t dark at all! The room was slightly dark! The room was pitch-black dark!
When we have a complete grasp and understanding of things the truth is easy to understand. And when we freely apply these truths we freely receive the benefits.
For all my free friends my Kindest Regards
-Gallagher