I want freedom for the full expression of my personality. – Gandhi

This is freedom of will. It actually consists in man being his own creation in the light of awareness. I however say: he is his own creation before all of awareness, and that this will only be added to illuminate that. That is why he cannot decide on being such and such, nor can he become someone else, but gradually he becomes aware of who he is. With those he wills what he is aware of, with me he becomes aware of his will. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Meditation means freedom from the known, the measurable. – Krishnamurti

This week (01/31/12):

Thich Nath Hanh on the end of suffering:    
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_UbvScs5LE

The coffee shop where everybody pays for someone else:
http://tinyurl.com/6qdm45o

What's a Kung Fu pianist?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16794606

B.A. Wallace talks about a ver special kind of syndrome:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogH3KAge6zw

Society is a corporation whose shareholders act on the assumption that the bread of each one of them has to be secured by relinquishing freedom and dignity of each individual. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is truth that sets you free not your struggle to be free. – Krishnamurti

The more political and economic freedom is diminished the more sexual freedom – for compensation – tends to expand. – Aldous Huxley

This week (01/24/12):

A moving community:    
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=cukX4AsYMUk

Transparency International offers its Corruption Perceptions Index:
http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2011/results/

The other side of smartphone mania – or is it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSMSFLAsNzc&feature=player_embedded

South African singer Johnny Clegg performs with his band – 'Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sghNjGaDbJ0

Dr. David E. Martin explains his 'Heritable Innovation Trust':        
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=N5_JnWuinpw

Believe me, that what truly frees a human being and what takes freedom away from him, what gives him true bliss and what destroys it: this is not subject to progress, this every sincere human being knows in his heart if he cares to listen to it! – Robert Musil

Freedom is not mere revolt from circumstances, which again breeds other circumstances, other environmental influences, which enslave the mind. We are talking about a freedom that comes naturally, easily, unasked for, when the mind is capable of functioning at its highest level. – Jiddu Krishnamurti

That which we know we call the law of necessity, and that which we don't know we call freedom. – Leo N. Tolstoi

This week (01/17/12):

A suitable introduction by Ivor Cutler:    
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e_hN2uzW0k&feature=related

Occupy ~ Spiritual Warriors…Peaceful Warriors….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YyRlnZ5VYc

A suitable continuation by Ivor Cutler:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUEJSPT-wlk&feature=related

Time to be angry, not cynical, about corporate money in politics:
http://www.grist.org/politics/2012-01-05-time-to-stop-being-cynical-about-corporate-money-in-politics-and

A suitable ending by Ivor Cutler:        
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irKLzbOzUFU&feature=related

Freedom means to be free from thoughts and to remain as pure consciousness. – Ramana Maharshi

For my joy consisted in fact of the same secret than the joy in dreams, it consisted of the freedom to experience everything imaginable  at the same time, to exchange the inner with the outer in playful ways, to move time and space like backdrops. - Hermann Hesse

There is no "good" or "bad" conditioning, there is only freedom from any conditioning. – Krishnamurti

Bronnie Ware on "Top Five Regrets of the Dying":     
http://beyondtheopposites.com/2011/11/22/top-five-regrets-of-the-dying/

Bill McKibben from the 350 movement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdF8wz4Jwm8

Br. David Steindl-Rast about opportunity for change         
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wzX0oqD5wU&feature=relmfu

Everything that frees our mind without giving us self-authorization is pernicious. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The mind becomes free not until it ceases to be a support. – Franz Kafka

This week (01/03/12):

The future of the Internet could look like this:     
http://tinyurl.com/746hdkl

Meshell Ndege Ocello and her great band perform "Gettin' High":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_0SU2jLTjY&feature=related

Take some time to enjoy and ponder 'HOME', the wonderful and startling movie by Yann Arthus-Bertrand:         
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_g1Fft8KK0&feature=relmfu