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Tag: Freedom

Featured Poetry

R. B. Simon – Shorn

April 10, 2022April 22, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet R. B. Simon's "Shorn" is a concise self-reflective piece, in which the narrator desires to be unburdened and liberated of decades' worth of burdens.

Tagged burdens, Freedom, liberation, Poem, poet, Poetry, self-awareness, self-reflection, transformation, unburdeningLeave a comment
Buddha
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Discourse on the Absolute Truth

December 14, 2021December 13, 2021 Vanessa Able

According to Buddhist teaching, clinging to views is an empty and futile way of interfacing with the world.

Tagged Buddha, Buddhism, dogmatism, Elephant, Freedom, ideology, Sutras, sutta, truth, views, WisdomLeave a comment
Robert Smithson
Book Bits

‘Nature is Never Finished’ – Artist Robert Smithson on Cultural Confinement and Finding Real Freedom in Art

July 30, 2021July 30, 2021 Vanessa Able

Robert Smithson's brand of land art went against the hegemony of galleries and museums who he accused of dictating the context, meaning and value of art.

Tagged Culture, ecology, Freedom, land art, landscape, meaning, nature, spiral jettyLeave a comment
Epictetus
Book Bits, Philosophy

‘Your Job Is to Put On a Splendid Performance’: Epictetus’ Design for a Skillful and Happy Life

June 17, 2021June 17, 2021 Vanessa Able

Epictetus' path to freedom attends to the aspects of life that can be controlled, while meeting with equanimity the things we can do nothing about.

Tagged ancient greek, Encheiridion, equanimity, Freedom, Happiness, liberation, philosophy, secular, stoicLeave a comment
Wendy Blaxland
Featured Poetry

Wendy Blaxland – That Wind

May 23, 2021May 23, 2021 Vanessa Able

For Wendy Blaxland, That Wind is a poetic response to what happens in her immediate natural world.

Tagged Fear, Freedom, Light, nature, weather, windLeave a comment
Jennifer Chesnut
Featured Poetry

Jennifer Chesnut – Little Bird

April 11, 2021April 8, 2021 Vanessa Able

Jennifer Chesnut wrote Little Bird while doing what she does every morning after rising – she was looking out the window, processing dreams, watching birds and writing poetry.

Tagged birds, Freedom, Gratitude, Inspiration, watching, WritingLeave a comment
Mark Christopherson
Featured Poetry

Mark Christopherson – Interval and Slip

November 22, 2020November 20, 2020 Vanessa Able

Our days are so familiar, yet, unexpectedly at times, we slip loose from the narrative that is shaping our perspectives.

Tagged fog, Freedom, intervals, invigoration, narrative, slip, StillnessLeave a comment
AR ammons
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A.R. Ammons – Play

November 11, 2020November 11, 2020 Vanessa Able

The first lines of A.R. Ammons Play are an exaltation of the freedom contained within demise and a call to 'yearn too high' and 'drill imagination through necessity.'

Tagged Death, Dreams, Freedom, imagination, liberation, necessity, Play, Poetry, yearningLeave a comment
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry – The Peace of Wild Things

September 23, 2020September 23, 2020 Vanessa Able

Berry's poem looks to nature for release from world-weariness and despair, and suggests a kind of liberation through reviving our relationship with the wilderness.

Tagged Freedom, grace, nature, peace, Poetry, wilderness2 Comments
Osho
Book Bits

Don’t Hit Your Head, Just Pass Through the Door

September 7, 2020September 7, 2020 Vanessa Able

Osho on how clinging to a particular idea of love can make a marriage stale and how chasing after security can dampen the dynamic beauty of being in a constantly changing world.

Tagged change, Courage, Freedom, insecurity, intimacy, openness, Relationships, securityLeave a comment

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