The Freedom

[mudra]

Everyone longs to be free. Freedom is our essential nature, so my ultimate prayer is that the world is set free to experience the truth and the beauty of our own being.

Brandon Bays

Love Always
mudra

[mudra]

From the moment that you don’t fear to share your heart, you are a free person.

Paulo Coelho

Love Always
mudra

[mudra]

To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what love is or what freedom is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love Always
mudra

[Gnosis5]

Originally Posted by mudra

From the moment that you don’t fear to share your heart, you are a free person.

Paulo Coelho

Love Always
mudra

Thank you, that speaks to me now.

[Oliver]

Do you remember this movie? Milos Forman`s "One flew over the cuckoo`s nest". A legendary master piece. It is all about freedom, with deepest socio-psychological meanings.
The metaphor is that the society/state is a mental hospital. There are doctors, guards and nurses. Patients under "therapy". One day, they are bringing a new "patient"...with only one problem - he is quite normal. And he loves freedom very much. The drama begins...

[Oliver]

"War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength."

- George Orwell ("1984")

[Oliver]

* Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it; and the greater power he ascribes to faith, the more he deprives himself of that power which God has given to him when He endowed him with the gift of reason. Reason is a particle of the Creator's divinity. When we use it with a spirit of humility and justice we are certain to please the Giver of that precious gift.

* Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion. The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

- Giacomo Casanova

[Oliver]

Expose yourself to your deepest fear;
after that, fear has no power, and the
fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes.
You are free.

- Jim Morrison

[Oliver]

Until we are all free,
we are none of us free.

- Emma Lazarus

[Oliver]

Maya Angelou

I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS


A free bird leaps on the back of the wind
and floats downstream till the current ends
and dips his wing in the orange suns rays and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage
can seldom see through his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill
of things unknown but longed for still
and his tune is heard on the distant hill
for the caged bird sings of freedom.

The free bird thinks of another breeze
and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn and he names the sky his own.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill
of things unknown but longed for still
and his tune is heard on the distant hill
for the caged bird sings of freedom."

[Gnosis5]

[QUOTE=Oliver;234642]Until we are all free,
we are none of us free.

- Emma Lazarus


You are not going to make this hard for me are you?

[Oliver]

[QUOTE=Gnosis5;235048]

Originally Posted by Oliver

Until we are all free,
we are none of us free.

- Emma Lazarus


You are not going to make this hard for me are you?

It is not so hard, Gnosis. Try...

[Oliver]

In a world where you are constantly
asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating
to give yourself the license to be a dilettante.
Commit to nothing. Try everything.

- Tom Hodgkinson

[Gnosis5]

Originally Posted by Oliver

In a world where you are constantly
asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating
to give yourself the license to be a dilettante.
Commit to nothing. Try everything.

- Tom Hodgkinson

Snoopie smells a polarity somewhere here

[Gnosis5]

[QUOTE=Oliver;235161]

Originally Posted by Gnosis5

It is not so hard, Gnosis. Try...

Dang it! I see what you are saying now, and it was sooo simple -- I simply took my hand off the lid that I had put on myself and by transference on everyone else. We all floated up and out, effortlessly. Just let go, be me and let others be "me"s.

cheers!
Gnosis

[Oliver]

[QUOTE=Gnosis5;235556]

Originally Posted by Oliver

Dang it! I see what you are saying now, and it was sooo simple -- I simply took my hand off the lid that I had put on myself and by transference on everyone else. We all floated up and out, effortlessly. Just let go, be me and let others be "me"s.

cheers!
Gnosis

[morguana]

Caged Bird

A free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wing
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can seldom see through
his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and
his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.

The free bird thinks of another breeze
and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn
and he names the sky his own.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.


Maya Angelou


love
m x

[Oliver]

The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free...

- Utah Phillips

[Oliver]

I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to know the meaning of all things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a sacrifice on their alters.

- Ayn Rand

[Oliver]

"(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes. Futility, and freedom, were Absolute"

- Bruce Sterling (Schismatrix)

[rhythm]

like freedom ... it is found within

[Oliver]

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[Oliver]

Just living is not enough', said the Butterfly,
'One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

- Hans Christian Andersen

[burgundia]

[Oliver]

We live in a world in which people are censured, demoted, imprisoned, beheaded, simply because they have opened their mouths, flapped their lips, and vibrated some air. Yes, those vibrations can make us feel sad or stupid or alienated. Tough sh.t. That's the price of admission to the marketplace of ideas. Hateful, blasphemous, prejudiced, vulgar, rude, or ignorant remarks are the music of a free society, and the relentless patter of idiots is how we know we're in one. When all the words in our public conversation are fair, good, and true, it's time to make a run for the fence."

- Daniel Gilbert