Most humans exist somewhere on that line between enslavement to destructive habits at one end and total consciousness and nonattachment at the other. In exactly the same way, freedom of choice can be represented as a continuum. Realistically, very few people could ever be found operating at the positive extreme, truly conscious and consistently free.
--Gabor Mate, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, p305.
--Gabor Mate, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, p305.
Posts from This Journal by “freedom” Tag
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QotD: Albright on Trump
Trump is the first antidemocratic president in modern U.S. history. On too many days, beginning in the early hours, he flaunts his disdain for…
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QotD: Ideas Don't Die
"You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea." --Medgar Evers before his own assasination
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QotD: Power Concedes Nothing Without Demand
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without…
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QotD: Your Path
Your confusion is not pathology, it is path. It has something to show you that clarity could never reveal. The nature of chaos is wisdom, but you…
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QotD: Who Rules You
To learn who rules over you, Simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. --Voltaire
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QotD: Choice and Responsibility--and Default
I have often said "it's a free will universe" as a basis for extolling choice as a power, whether conscious or unconscious, for determining your…
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