And exactly the absence of an aim in life gave him that broad and glad awareness of freedom which now constituted his happiness. – Leo N. Tolstoi

And when you look at something freely, it is always new. A human with convictions is a dead human. – Krishnamurti

He who penetrated till the end finds himself in total freedom, free from the system – beyond any system. – Friedrich Schelling

This week (05/07/12):

Justin Hall-Tipping talks about freeing energy from the grid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsuB-6-n-MM

Agustí Fernandez and Jo Krause play "Morning Glory" :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOsJyibm3j4&feature=related

This documentary shows why it is so important to wake up from trance:     
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/trance-formation/

The mind becomes free when it stops to be a crutch. – Franz Kafka

Reason expresses the law of necessity, consciousness means the essence of freedom. – Leo N. Tolstoi

Only if the mind is free from all ideas and dogmas it can act properly. -  Jiddu Krishnamurti

This week (05/07/12):

Lily Yeh founded Barefoot Artists to revitalize neighborhoods around the globe through the transformative power of art:
http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-yes-breakthrough-15/lily-yeh-beauty-in-broken-places

Maria Joao, Aki Takase, Nils-Henning Oersted-Pedersen in a marvellous performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_CBTLSzB3w

In this TED talk Jessica Jackley speaks poverty, money and love:    
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Cqj0sgrNL10

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free. – Bhagavad Gita

We must determine whether we really want freedom — whether we are willing to dare the perils of… rebirth…
For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been. - Virginia Hanson

Free will: to reason it cannot be proven, yet it has to be required because otherwise all self-responsibility ends.- Wilhelm Busch

This week (05/01/12):

Frithjof Bergman in conversation about his New Work movement and more:
http://www.worldshiftinternational.org/frithjof/

The wonderful blind Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsuji plays John Musto's 'Improvisation and Fugue':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_CBTLSzB3w

Trish Corbett and Michael Mannion from the Mindshift Institute speak with Dr. Rudy Schild about new discoveries in the cosmos:   
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef1l8ZDhHT4

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation. – Sri Aurobindo

Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives. – John Barbour

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free. – Gita Bellin

This week (04/25/12):

Steve Jobs and Zen – or maybe not?:
http://tinyurl.com/cwkxnu5

Orson Whales drawing Moby Dick and stuff:
http://vimeo.com/182925

An entertaining 'Crash Course World History', first take:   
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yocja_N5s1I&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&feature=player_embedded#!

Fritjof Capra about Leonardo and his quest for the nature and origin of life :
http://tinyurl.com/c8fsjua

Ultimate freedom has nothing to do with your life circumstances – it is the freedom of allowing the self to dissolve into the waves of the ocean. It is the freedom that is born through one's absolute trust in life.- Richard Rudd

It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.- Paulo Freire

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony. – Benjamin Britten

This week (04/17/12):

Jessica Reeder sees 2012 as the year of the co-op:
http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/2012-the-year-of-the-cooperative

Nick Meador proposes what Buckminster Fuller calle 'Mind Fellowships' for creative and visionary people:
http://www.nickmeador.org/2012/04/06/funding-my-existence/#.T4xiwdn4IzQ

An amazing percussion intro by Daniel Sadownick leads the Screaming Headless Torsos into 'Smile and Wave':   
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lppt6WE3LsQ&feature=related

Michael Astor writes about the UN discussing  Gross National Happiness:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/04/02/international/i173603D40.DTL

Related to the previous article, here is the first World Happiness Report:
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/2960