"Who am I? I am Freedom.
What am I? Freedom.
Where am I? I am in Freedom.
...Moses said: “Let my people go”. He spoke from the gut of existential freedom, demanding the freedom in time and space which is the birthright of all peoples...The Jewish people walked away: into the desert night; into the gut of the unknown...
As long as we believe that freedom is somewhere else and caught either in the future or the past, we will not find the freedom that is always here. Freedom is not caught in time and space. Freedom is here and now. Freedom can never be punished, violated or incarcerated. It can’t be controlled. Freedom is inseparable from the source of all we are... It is the light that gives sense to those contractions of slavery and those transformations that occur through liberation.
As human beings, we are in a process of evolution which involves perpetual impermanence. Yet our very ability to experience gain and loss; birth and death; slavery and liberation depends on our being more than that. It depends on the very freedom that is inherent to creation itself, and which is fundamental to the consciousness that can sing as it dances through the parting waves of the Red Sea towards the promised land, and to the voice that out of the passionate fire of creation can name itself only as: I am that I am."
~ Georgi Y. Johnson
Image ~ ‘The Last Supper’ by Bartolome Carducho.
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