"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant
facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a
nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in
an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
-Robert F. Kennedy-
HUMAN RIGHT 18
Freedom of thought
"Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance"
WALK FROM YOUR WORLD
Walk
from your world not from others.
Walk your own pace, keep your own stride.
Fear not if others will approve.
Wear the security of your universe with confidence.
The power you create is the loyality to yourself.
Fear not your doing of deeds.
Depowering comes when you can't trust your own game.
Trust yourself, others will too.
What is the real universe?
Yours, everyone elses or the hard dirt with rocks jutting,
Do you slow or not communicate because you may get hurt?
Is the power of the ten thousand foot cliff more powerful than the idea of
it?
Think about it.
When you go in a room are you afraid to reach to everyone there?
Why? If you can reach to everyone there than that is what you are doing.
The illusion of everyone accepting you is Yours. Or not.
When you walk the hard ground who is perceiveing that space and time?
Feel the power of your own space and universe.
If you don't who else will?
Life is looking, life is deciding, life is creating.
Do it.
To go into agreement is the trap one is trying to get out of.
Agree with yourself and your dreams.
If your viewpoint of self is less than it should be,
so goes life for hardly any fee.
Walk your own walk and talk your own talk.
You think others won't approve, only if that's your thought.
Life is interesting when you make it so.
If you wish to be a leaf make sure you tell the wind to blow.
Walk from your world all the power you need is right there.
God would want you to do it that way.
So do not balk.
James
Newell ©1997
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©Caroline
Putnam
Lunar Eclipse of the Great Dianthus
"Wanting rain! - It's my form of prayer".
Artist: Caroline Putnam - USA
M edium: oil on canvas
Website: www.carolputnam.com
©Carl
Gopalkrishnan
Viva Las Shiva
I was inspired to create this painting as part of a exhibition in 2006 to explain Australia's unjust Anti-Terrorism Act 2005 legislation to children (a take on the process). I wanted to make sense of the Sept 11 event outside of the media's interpretation, in which religion was not demonised, and our inner cosmology defiled.
The events of September 11 have been unjustly used to re-write what 'religion' means, through the media, to affect all people's inner right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. This painting shows a manifistation of the Hindu God Shiva, God of creation and destruction, a reference to spiritual laws and processes that have one goal - spiritual evolution. By politicising religion by using a tragedy such as September 11, prevents rational thought, and the seeking of explantion for this tragedy. This has polorised people everywhere, and taken away the deeper meaning of religion. In a sense, other religious interpretations (like geo-political arguments for the cause if the event) have been eradicated. In order to have further rights to freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance - we must have the internal/mental freedom from fear to make a real choice about what religion means to us. It's role is so fundamental to people's identity and sense of meaning to life, that we must respect all the religious aspects of todays complex world in more than a 2 dimentional manner.
Artist: Carl Gopalkrishnan - Australian
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Website: www.carlgopalkrishnan.com
