Freedom - "Meditations For People Who Do Too Much"

A Creed is "a set of beliefs or aims which guides someone's actions". Our society upholds a creed that teaches we are human-'doings' and not human-'beings'. This assumption of work justifying our personal value is often ambient in our culture and deserves our examination. Who benefits from this way of living? Certainly not us. It's time we detach our worth from our work and instead, revel in the value that was born alongside our sheer existence.

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Meditations for People Who Do Too Much Freedom Would you sell the colors of your sunset and the fragrance of your flowers and the passionate wonder of your forest for a creed that will not let you dance?

From Helene Johnson Would you?

Have you?

What kind of creed have we accepted that tells us we are of no value unless we are working ourselves to death?

What kind of creed have we adhered to that tells us that doing is superior to being?

What belief have we accepted that suggests that if we are not rushing and hurrying,

We have no meaning?

We don't have time for sunsets,

Fragrances of flowers,

Or the passionate wonders of our forests.

We don't even see sunsets,

Flowers,

Or forests.

Do they still exist?

Dancing surely must be for pagans who don't have to make money.

We used to dance before we became so important.

When a creed is not articulated as a creed and is assumed to be a reality,

We don't have much freedom of choice.

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