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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
—Albert Camus
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy
“Freedom,” according to Jean-Paul Sartre, “is what you do with what’s been done to you.” This is true at the individual level — say, someone climbing their way out of a traumatic childhood into full adulthood — as well as at the collective level — think, for example, of the generations-long liberation struggle of Black people in America.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
We all want to be famous people—and the moment we want to be something, we are no longer free.
Jiddu Krishnamurti • Think on These Things
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
‘I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It is knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth and then simply doing it.’
⁃ Natalie Goldberg, ‘Writing Down The Bones’