Freedom

Quotes:

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.” 
“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” 
― Jim Morrison

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.” 
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves” 
― Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works - Volume XII

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill
of things unknown but longed for still
and his tune is heard on the distant hill
for the caged bird sings of freedom.” 
― Maya Angelou, The Complete Collected Poems

“All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them”
--- Leonard Cohen, Suzanne

"Consciousness is freedom itself and has the ability to appear as innumerable minds, just as innumerable documents can appear on a screen. One document cannot see another, but the screen ‘knows’ all the documents simultaneously." (quote is from this essay: 
 http://non-duality.rupertspira.com/read/consciousness_is_freedom_itself_  )

--- Rupert Spira

http://universoulawakening.com/62-quotes-from-gangaji/
~~Gangaji...62 quotes!

“Trust yourself. At the root, at the core, there is pure sanity, pure openness. Don’t trust what you have been taught, what you think, what you believe, what you hope. Deeper than that, trust the silence of your being.” 
― Gangaji

Sometimes now, some power that seems to work to betray this opportunity of total freedom may get stirred up, and for a while you will feel like you're under some attack by some dark energies — they too must eventually go or become weak, and the best way is not to fight with them, but to hold onto the Truth which is already with you, and to trust also. Don't get pulled into any shape. Don't enter into any fight with your mind or suppress anything — simply stay as the undivided seer, simply just witnessing, but not combining yourself with anything that you see — and you'll see that these things too, will pass. Everything passes. Everything passes but You. Even your personality will pass. Your ideas about yourself — they also pass. We have lived many ideas about ourself that we have exhausted, and they've gone — it's a field of unending changes. But there is That which is unchanging within you. It is your seeing place.
--- Mooji,  19 𝐹𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑦 2017, 

The First and Last Freedom
https://selfdefinition.org/krishnamurti/Jiddu_Krishnamurt_The_First_And_Last_Freedom.pdf
~~Krishnamurti

Videos

Our First and Last Freedom (Rupert Spira)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgEikcsIoxQ&t=316s

Does Free Will Exist? (Rupert Spira)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvU43SL-RIA

Freedom Movie (Mooji)
http://spaceoffreedom.org/page-video.html

Freedom is What you Are  (I in a restaurant..) (Mooji)
http://moojivideos.com/hp_wordpress/?p=188

You Have a Chance To Be At Peace (Gangaji)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUrF3k9_oJM

Beyond Assumption (Gangaji)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeI1S036K9k

Hologram

Hologram

The whole in the part..
The entire universe
as a whole and in
its interminable parts
are all holograms..
Might we say:
the Whole rises
and takes the shape
of what seems external in
both the vast and the small..
The mind retires and
is burned in wonder
on glimpsing this
sublime expression...!

Did You Know?

A hologram is a picture of a "whole" object, showing it in three dimensions. We've all seen cheap holographic images on credit cards and ID cards (where they help prevent copying). Far more impressive are large holograms that take the form of a ghostly 3-D moving figure that you can walk around to see from all angles. Holograms were invented in 1947 but only perfected after the invention of the laser in 1960. Today they're used in such technologies as compact-disc players and checkout scanners, and holograms can be created of the inside of live internal organs to permit doctors to examine the organs in great detail. And soon televisions with hologram technology may enable us to watch in "3-D".

Know yourself...

Know yourself as One (I am)

and the word "believe"

dissolves..

It is an experiential Knowing

without subject

without object...

The Peak

(top of Pikes Peak today!)

The Peak

Altitude of sweeping winds

snow shining and shadowed..

Change appearing in change

yet the Essence remains

a home for return..

The Peak dissolves

as do: 

summer birds chirping

iris colors peaking

a bear arriving in town

(this morning in Durango!)..

All temporary forms

made of an Essence

a luminous moment 

in a Peak meditation...

Seeking That

Without awareness of That
we limit our vision
to the small self
looking outward upon the world
and the body..
and probing inward as we locate
those many thoughts
sensations and feelings..

When That is at last experienced
as the real Self
those outward observations
and inward thoughts and sensations
become forms of That
and we learn that we must seek That
to find the real body and world...



Thought for the day....... “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” Arthur Schopenhauer, 'Studies in Pessimism', Psychological Observations, 1851
  (Thanks, Nancy..!)

Inner Teacher

Inner Teacher

We were taught many things

and we believed from the start..

A cultural dogma we inherited..

A truth assumed obvious 

for all of those years..

Seeming never to have attended to 

our inner teacher..

This teacher avoids books and Google

allowing experience to grip in clarity..

In lesson #1 

we find the perennial error: 

of mind and matter separated

as our years expected..

Other lessons follow with

Teacher-realization

Self-realization..

Education's new beginning...

Cleansing for Clarity

Cleansing for Clarity

Fossil fuels~~~~~~~
They are old..and seemingly departing..
They damage our clarity in many ways:
Seeing darkly through pollution
Congesting our complexity-ridden travel
Defacing and threatening our living space
Burdening those who must live close to the 
mines and pipelines of darkness..
The desire for clarity 
for cleansing of perception
is filling the airwaves...

See:

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/17/05/16/1942252/all-fossil-fuel-vehicles-will-vanish-in-8-years-says-stanford-study