Living Freedom Archive

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 [...]

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 [...]

The meaning of freedom is beyond the physical form. It is the extension of the human spirit into this world. To overcome its constraints: Understanding that even if a person may appear incorrect according to our own viewpoint, we do not have to react to it. A reaction to a viewpoint with another viewpoint, merely [...]

Of course it would be great if there were PEACE all over the world and everyone loved one another but there is want and poverty everywhere and the world is full of evil people. To me there has been a battle from the beginning of time that it will likely last forever. But forever may [...]

Oh freedom! What do you mean to me? More precious than precious, greater than any state can be. Without it, life is an anomaly, because we can not function properly. Without freedom, I wouldn’t be living peacefully with a physical challenge which presently affects my freedom of movement. If I was living within oppression and [...]

Nearly forty years ago, Janis Joplin screamed in song that “freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.” A few years before her, an impassioned Martin Luther King called out his dreams of freedom, amplifying the determined footfall of Gandhi’s earlier satyagraha, or non violent protest for freedom. Their messages replay everywhere: echoes, chants, [...]

What do I know about freedom today? My life is full of doing doing doing talking talking thinking thinking push push push in a world too noisy, too hellbent, too rushing by on important business as if it mattered who gets there first – a baby step past destruction and up against a wall, suddenly [...]