Living Freedom Archive

I believe freedom is the ability to walk without building obstructing views of oceans, prairies, mountains, forests, and other landscapes.
I believe freedom will come when we collectively in communities decide land is sacred and that people need open places to let their heart lighten, to let their eyes feel the gentle touch of […]

I stand before you most of all as a heartbroken human being. I cannot bear any more to hear all about it, read all about, to know all about it.
Every day the evidence mounts about how bad it is, how much worse it’s getting and how the truth is full of lies, distortion and […]

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 can […]

Freedom has been a universal quest for as long as life exists on the planet.
Plants and animals alike long for freedom - grass grows through cracks of concrete and a hare will eat through its own paw to liberate itself from the trapper’s snare. Entire groups of people have risked their individual […]

While we share with other creatures an inborn need for mobility, as self-transcending beings we also resist any kind of limitation, even self-imposed.
There is a good sense and a non-sense to the craving for unlimited freedom, and at this late date in the human career, it’s crucial to realize in our daily lives the difference. […]

Freedom is a vision that should be achieved in personal, social and international context.
On all these levels freedom means more than the mere absence of physical freedom. An all encompassing understanding of freedom always contains human rights, social justice and maintaining the natural environment.
Such a freedom can be obtained by practicing compassion, honesty and nonviolence.
Let […]

One of the primary fictions that governs our lives is that we are in any meaningful sense free. Our way of life is predicated on freedom, and is freer than any other way of life that has ever existed, we tell ourselves endlessly, drearily, compulsively, as sleep-deprived we look out the window at the concrete […]

Freedom to me, is the fundamental recognition that all human beings— indeed all of life—has innate value and has the right to a secure existence.
In other words, we all have the right to the resources nature has given us to clothe ourselves, eat and have shelter.
I believe resources should be collectively owned not acquired for […]