The Freedom

[morguana]

freedom is a right
love to you all
may you all be free
m x

[Oliver]

[Oliver]

Melody Hogan - No more!




Author`s thoughts: I've heard that long after prisoners have actually been set free, there can still remain the phantom feeling of shackles around their wrists and ankles. The mind and senses are struggling to accept the change, and therefore continue to reproduce the sensation of bondage even though the chains are not there.

The same is true with the issues of the heart. Sin can take a devastating toll on our lives, oftentimes convincing us that we'll never be free from the power of its grasp. Even the restraints that held us captive take on a seductive familiarity. We may not know what true freedom feels like, but at least we know the comfort of our own slavery. Twisted perspective, but true.

For some freedom can be an uncomfortable, scary place that holds no solid answers, but lots and lots of questions.

"Will it last? Am I finally free? What if I can't resist it? Who am I without it? What does real freedom even look like? Is there something wrong with me?"

It's intimidating at best...and sometimes it feels safer to turn tail and run back to the thing that accepts us, rather than brave the harsh realities of the life that's so publicly rejected us.

...and then sometimes...it's just best to hide ourselves behind the armor of our Defender and shout over His shoulder, "YOU DON'T HAVE ME ANY MORE!"

He will fight for you.

[Oliver]

I hope for nothing.
I fear nothing.
I am free.

- Nikos Kazantzakis

[Oliver]

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

- Moshe Dayan

[Oliver]

The Divine Plan is one of Freedom.
The inherent nature of man is ever seeking
to express itself in terms of freedom,
because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.

- Ernest Holmes

[Oliver]

Long time ago, this poem was my first soul lecture of why and how to love humans and to believe in their potentials. I was searching in my life, and thanks to the Creator, i was finding a lot of these characteristics in many people I met. I loved them. I love them still. I will never stop loving people. They are beautiful beings...


Rudyard Kipling

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

[Oliver]

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

- Francois Voltaire

[Oliver]

Your heart is free... have the courage to follow it!

- Braveheart

[Oliver]

And then, something happened.
I let go. Lost in oblivion.
Dark and silent and complete.
I found freedom.
Losing all hope was freedom.

- Fight Club

[Oliver]

The hope is a virtue of the slave.

- Emil Sioran

[mudra]

Love Always
mudra

[Oliver]

Thanks Mudra for the contribution.
Profound.

[mudra]

Lovely thread Oliver.
A pleasure for me to post here
Thank You .

Love for You
mudra

Originally Posted by Oliver

Thanks Mudra for the contribution.
Profound.

[bushycat]

Come down off the cross.

-Tom Waits


BC

[burgundia]

Originally Posted by bushycat

Come down off the cross.

-Tom Waits


BC

Such a short statement bushy and so meaningful...

[Oliver]

Originally Posted by bushycat

Come down off the cross.

-Tom Waits


BC

Wow, Bushy!...Tom Waits was always a special kind of genius.
Great, great statement!!!

[Oliver]

[Oliver]

This is the legendary dialog between Tom Waits and Iggy Pop from the Jim Jarmush`s "Coffee and Cigarettes" movie

[bushycat]

Originally Posted by bushycat

Come down off the cross.

-Tom Waits


BC

Sometimes I say this to myself when grounding is needed! Thanks, Burgundia, Oliver. O., those videos are great.

Tom Waits is remarkably original. One of my favourites is his recording of Gavin Bryars' composition, Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet. It is sung with a tramp (I think at a London Underground station), some versions looped over and over to go on for one hour. It becomes like a chant in the repetitiveness.


BC

[Oliver]

Here it is, Bushycat.
Tom Waits - a free man!

[bushycat]

Thank you, Oliver. What an artful, soulful video.

BC

[Oliver]

Freedom from fear could be said to sum up
the whole philosophy of human rights.

- Dag Hammarskjold

[burgundia]

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.


Virginia Woolf

[Oliver]

Originally Posted by burgundia

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.


Virginia Woolf

I agree.