I also feel freedom is something inside we feel and need to find…. I am on my own personal journey to this, finding, facing and letting go of fears, past experiences, circumstances, etc. that I have held onto and am finally feeling FREE for the first time in my life and on my journey to achieving this true moment! (Thanks to you!)

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Aloha,
Shannon
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I cant help but see how so many people posted freedom as something inward and selfish. the “I want” or “do what I want when I want” type of freedom. I view that as slavery to feeling and slavery to circumstances. We cannot try to live in an alternate world but we must live in the natural constraints of life and live free in that

So What is Freedom to me. Freedom for me came when I gave my life away. When I gave my life to building something that is making a difference in our world. Freedom to me I found when I left father mother sister and brother, left money and possessions and found hope for freedom in Christ. Freedom came when I began to understand how Christ viewed me and that how he views me transcends other peoples thoughts towards me and the worlds limitations. When God labels me as a champion and as the head and not the tail (even when i truly am not those things) that brings liberty and freedom. Understand that the creator of the world made you the way you are for a reason, destiny and purpose.

None of us want to live in chains or constraints or held back but what we must understand is that the only way we are held back is by ourselves, self chains us. We must look up and give our lives to freedom. Matthew 16:25 says
25For whoever is bent on saving his [temporal] life [his comfort and security here] shall lose it [eternal life]; and whoever loses his life [his comfort and security here] for My sake shall find it [life everlasting].

So is freedom being free in and of yourself or is freedom living your life FOR and under the Creator of FREEDOM?

much love,

August

To me freedom means:

• Having the ability to ask questions, and not be afraid of any repercussions for asking it.
• Having the ability to suggest a solution without having to worry about any repercussions for suggesting it.
• Having the ability to make a decision that effects your life and allowing yourself accept the outcome of that decision (whether it be good or bad)
• Having the ability to allow yourself to choose how to handle the outcome of the decisions you’ve made.
• Having the ability to grant others the capability to make decisions for themselves, even when those decisions may directly affect you and your loved ones.
• Having the ability to show how we are inside and not be silenced or alienated or shut out for it.

These are just some of the many things that freedom means to me.

Thank you once again!

Gil
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7/9/09 camping in Yellowstone on my honeymoon with my beautiful wife.

Contemplating true freedom and what it means to me, is to say the meaning I give true freedom is what it is to me. This is important to the level of freedom I am able to create for myself. Understanding that freedom for me is my choice and I decide when, where, and how freedom is used in my life. This gives me freedom in and of itself. To be free of expectations and know that all my limitations are set by me: spiritually and karmically.

Freedom is both a goal for achievement and a divine birth right we all have within us always without having to do anything for it. Freedom to the degree that we love ourselves, the state of unconditional love is to be free. Non-acceptance of all things is non-freedom. To not have freedom is to have a sick mind, an unhealthy state ruled by the ego, out of the moment lost in ones thoughts. The key is to release, to let go and make peace with. To breathe in the moment, it starts with inner peace. Inner freedom creates outer freedom.

Picture – to flow without judgment like a big beautiful waterfall, heading passionately toward the cliff and then jumping off without any resistance soaring down with compassion, smashing the bottom floor free from shame and guilt loving unconditionally the observing of where it freely flows next.

The waterfall is not free in the sense that it goes where it wishes, as it flows where the rocks, mountains and landscape take it. There is no control in the matter of where it flows to, but free in where it flows from. Letting go of being attached to the outcome it is free from expectations thus no regrets of the past, not worried about the future and loving the present with amazement of the sheer beauty observing life as it is. Because where it comes from is a state in which every rock and bottom flow of river bed and every cliff it jumps of off it says “Thank You for Loving Me, I Love You Back”. That is true freedom to me.

All the best unconditionally free,
Jeremy Creager