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aving if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Mahatma Gandhi</p></blockquote><p id="ce53">My feeling of free can be stolen away by fear if I avoid mistakes growth makes my freedom real</p><blockquote id="ee60"><p>No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free. Buddha</p></blockquote><p id="7758">Floating in the cloud gives space to recognize the voices from me sorted from the outside it’s clear to see being myself is worth a try</p><blockquote id="a5e6"><p>To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. Virginia Woolf</p></blockquote><p id="288a">Now that I am free it is up to me to keep me in line nobody else will be checking on me I am my own responsibility</p><blockquote id="1a7f"><p>For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. Nelson Mandela</p></blockquote><p id="c56e">Paths are connecting and intersecting this is where I am working for the common good it is

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not just my freedom but the freedom of all that I am guarding</p><p id="83f0">Thank you for reading! Thank you <a href="https://readmedium.com/1dbd1f7e22bc?source=post_page-----8abaaea120e6--------------------------------">Darshak Rana</a> for the prompt on <i>Freedom</i> for Spiritual Saturday!</p><p id="58b9">If you want to read more of my stories and poems…</p><div id="2257" class="link-block"> <a href="https://vantagepointsforawe.medium.com/"> <div> <div> <h2>K. Barrett — Medium</h2> <div><h3>Read writing from K. Barrett on Medium. I’m an educator, mom, wife, daughter, sister, friend, reader, writer…</h3></div> <div><p>vantagepointsforawe.medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*DKY1m8Qb1V3FdDJ_)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Free Beyond Me

Spiritual Saturday Prompt: Freedom

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Above the water in a cloud floating and reflecting free to reach down connecting, paths intersecting with careful selection, only when electing

Freedom(n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing. Ayn Rand

Free from others opinions, judgments, and givings being my own abundance

Everything can be taken from a man but…the last of the human freedoms- to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. Victor Frankle

Circumstances dealt in some respects but reactions are real I’m free to control how I feel

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Mahatma Gandhi

My feeling of free can be stolen away by fear if I avoid mistakes growth makes my freedom real

No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free. Buddha

Floating in the cloud gives space to recognize the voices from me sorted from the outside it’s clear to see being myself is worth a try

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. Virginia Woolf

Now that I am free it is up to me to keep me in line nobody else will be checking on me I am my own responsibility

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. Nelson Mandela

Paths are connecting and intersecting this is where I am working for the common good it is not just my freedom but the freedom of all that I am guarding

Thank you for reading! Thank you Darshak Rana for the prompt on Freedom for Spiritual Saturday!

If you want to read more of my stories and poems…

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