The Groundedness of Liberation (mostly the music) February 12, 2023
Posted by ajoyfulpractice in Changing Perspectives, Music, Philosophy, Yoga.Tags: Abraham Lincoln, kaivalya, Yoga Sutra 3.25, Yoga Sutra 3.54, Yoga Sutra 3.55, Yoga Sutra 3.56, Yoga Sutras 3.48-3.53
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Peace and ease to all during this “Season of Non-violence” and all other seasons!
“But we can see the past, though we may not claim to have directed it; and seeing it, in this case, we feel more hopeful and confident for the future.
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The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men’s labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name—liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names—liberty and tyranny.
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails to-day among us human creatures, even in the North, and all professing to love liberty. Hence we behold the processes by which thousands are daily passing from under the yoke of bondage, hailed by some as the advance of liberty, and bewailed by others as the destruction of all liberty.”
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– from an address at a “Sanitary Fair” on April 18, 1864 in Baltimore, Maryland by President Abraham Lincoln (b. 02/12/1809)
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Sunday’s playlist is available on YouTube and Spotify. [Look for “07282021 The Difference A Day Made II”]
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