Living Freedom Archive

For me, freedom is uncovered from within. It is a state of being, beyond any condition or circumstance.
It is trusting what I sense, when I listen to the Silence, this Energy that comes through me. Each manifested impulse to accept, to honor, to appreciate, and to love, frees me and those around […]

Some might argue that we don’t have any choice in this upside down dangerous world and that we can’t affect what will happen. But even if we can’t immediately alter the course of human events on the world stage, we can certainly create change in our own lives and in all of the lives that […]

The word freedom carries a lot of strange and uneasy feelings. I want to invent a new word to express this feeling, this way of being, this way of thinking and interacting that is untouchable by the sickness of the human race.
I think to myself, how did we get here? How did we […]

I am an artist,
humanitarian, mother,
wife, daughter, neighbor,
grandchild, sister, movie buff, gardener, flower arranger, (and sender) wine enthusiast, friend and confident, fashion seeker,
stranger (hopefully kind and considerate to most,)
aspiring chef, photographer, producer, collaborator, curious mind (who loves discovering new perspectives,via books, the internet, media, other artists, encounters, etc) and ultimately, […]

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 learning […]

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 and outer freedom;
freedom to … freedom from […]

Freedom implies the absence of limitation,
yet by our very manifestation in this life we
are necessarily limited by both body and mind.
To conclude that therefore no human being is truly free might seem excessively abstract, as it is clear that many of our fellow beings experience limitations of almost unimaginable magnitude. But while that abstraction […]

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 […]