The Search for Freedom

If I am free I own the world, if not, the world owns me. Freedom is having the physical and mental space to allow the body and mind to remove the pressure that so often contains us. The search for freedom involves understanding who we are, and where we want to be. Dreams are fantasies that may take us for a moment to the place we subconsciously want to go, but vision and determination can take us to the pinnacle of our desires and leave us there. A moment in a false paradise, or a lifetime in a real one, that is something that we have the power to determine.

Our view of freedom tends to be based on how much we think we have in comparison to others, but we should base it on our own needs, when we find out what we need we can begin the search, and plan the steps required to be at one with ourselves. We may have all the freedom in the world without moving far from our familiar surroundings, because this is all we desire, or we may travel the world and see so much that nothing is enough, it is all relative. What matters most is that we do not settle for less than we expected from our life, it is something we owe ourselves, and therefore something we must not wait for others to obtain for us.

Like stepping stones across a river, we know how many steps we have taken, and how many more we must take to reach our goal, each carefully planned step will take us to where we want to go. Freedom is rarely something we do not have today, and then have tomorrow, it comes with thought, vision, and determination, and an understanding of ourselves, it may be one thing for one person and something else for another, but either way it is our right, and it is right that we should look for it!

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William Royce

Freedom

Life is never easy
It was never meant to be
The challenge is for freedom
The dream is to be free

Before the life we have been given
Is taken in the end
We must make sure it was worth it
And we spent the freedom we could spend

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William Royce

Light of the World

The light of the world may be dimmed by those who seek by their actions to prevent peace and harmony, but their goals can never be accomplished, as the true power lies within all those who see the light through faith and determination. No cloud will overshadow those who seek a better world, those with the vision to create and not destroy, those with the imagination to dream and turn that dream into reality. No matter how few start the journey they will become many, their logic will be contagious and their goal inspiring, and their reward will be the satisfaction of helping others toward the freedom that allows us to enjoy the bounty that is our world.

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William Royce