Living Freedom Archive

When I was a young man and needed to believe that my service to my country meant something, I held closely words like “land of the free and home of the brave.” But after serving a year of front line combat in the jungles of Vietnam, I realized just how hollow those words were. I [...]

Freedom is like oxygen. If you have plenty, you don’t think about it much. It remains abstract and invisible. I first understood it viscerally when it thinned. And I watched loved ones struggle to breathe. Shielding and nurturing freedom requires love, honesty, and steadfastness—bravery made real through actions. In my own small way, I am [...]

Freedom is the most precious thing to me. I experience it as the garden in which love grows. When I feel free I feel joyful, and spontaneous feelings to reach out in caring, creative, and sensitive ways to others without separation naturally arise. Freedom has many dimensions. There’s relative freedom and ultimate freedom; inner freedom [...]

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 [...]

To Be Freely Forwarded in Support of Freedom ~ Define Who You Are Compiled for The Campaign to Liberate Freedom By Lorinda Earl, Activist, Social Commentator, and Dharma Mom (as of November 3rd, 2006), Vancouver, BC, Canada. email: lorinda (at) thepinkhouse.ca 1. Turn Off Your TV, but stay INFORMED: Anything you can find on the [...]

Throughout my life I’ve believed many things. Some things, the dogma of church and country, I believed because I was told to. Other things I desperately wanted to believe. Over time, I slowly began to examine my beliefs, picking up each one and holding it against my experience to see if it belonged, like testing [...]

I had a very interesting conversation with a number of my friends recently, about this campaign and what I think it really means. I had shared with them the words that follow this initial statement, and they have an even greater meaning and power to me now after having spoken to them. Basically, after explaining [...]

The Jewish New Year began on Friday, September 23rd at sundown. I learned that this year, Rosh Hashana happens to coincide with Ramadan. Led by our rabbi, we stood and sang for Shalom, peace throughout the world. Over and over again, our songs and prayers hoped for a better world, in which kindness, justice, and [...]