Living Freedom Archive

For me, freedom begins in the childhoods that we, as parents, are responsible for. If we follow along with what society/culture has coerced us to believe, then our children will struggle and possibly never understand the meaning or value of freedom. If we do whatever it takes to give them a childhood of unparalleled freedom, [...]

Being free is a universal need. Wherever there are living beings there are personal and social movements towards love, understanding and being free. I have enjoyed exploring what it means to be free by using processes that are themselves free. I play and record improvised music and also host a radio show where I interview [...]

Freedom to me is my ability to express myself through touch, words and actions, which are accepted with love, tolerance and respect – without censorship. Also, freedom means the ability to dress, work and play the way I want and to live how and where I want, as long as I am not harming anyone [...]

It is easy to be overwhelmed by feelings of hopelessness as we look around the world. Is there, in fact, hope for Africa’s future? Yes. Provided human populations develop programs that will stabilize, or optimize, their growth rate. It is very important to implement child health care programs along with family planning so that women [...]

We can re-invent civil disobedience in a million different ways. In other words, we can come up with a million ways of becoming a collective pain in the ass. Our strategy should be not only to confront Empire, but to lay siege to it. to deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. [...]

Freedom, to me, means that one can be however they want to be. When I say “be,” I mean, think, feel, trust and most importantly, love, however they want to. I believe that the most vital part of life is to love—something that is lacking and has been lacking in the world we live in [...]

when we say freedom we are children forming a word out of our desire, our instinct shaping something we can’t yet embrace, may never our meaning gathers so many layers and nuances in time we are speechless when we say freedom we are human what other creature needs the concept, the comfort when we say [...]

I sing to you of freedom my friend It begins with the heart when you wish to soar beyond your suffering this is the freedom you long for when you shed your tears that angels treasure this is your freedom, my friend when you laugh with your friend from the bottom of your soul this [...]