#freedom

calvera:

Capricornus Law

The worst thing that you can do toyourselfis catch a Capricorn while they don’t care.

Read that AGAIN!!!

Repeat that step as many times as needed because it’s a dangerous world in the wilderness and where the goat has freedom, the goat has power.

It’s me! You’re thinking of me! You wanted to see me and here I am for you to see. Now, you suddenly remember just how much and why you love me.

There’s the smile! The contagious smile! You see it, especially when you close your eyes and think of all of the times you put it there and you think of when you’ve neglected it and then you remember you miss it and you want it back in your life.

So you know good things are happening when the jackboot needs to jump

“I went to Wales because the place is stiff with magic, because the Rhinog Mountains are something like a wilderness where I would be free to wander like pipesmoke in a billiard room, and with the kind of apparently random purpose with which the laughing water dashes through the heather, rocks and peat. I went there to be a long way from all the powerful stimuli Wordsworth said prevented us, these days, from doing any proper thinking. My only purpose was to get thoroughly lost; to disappear into the hills and tarns and miss my way home for as long as possible. If I could find a string of swims and dips, each one surpassing the last in aimlessness, so much the better. The great thing about an aimless swim is that everything about it is concentrated in the here and now; none of its essence or intensity can escape into the past or future. The swimmer is content to be borne on his way full of mysteries, doubts and uncertainties. He is a leaf on the stream, free at last from his petty little purposes in life.”

—Roger Deakin,Waterlog

I tell my students, “When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”

This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn’t matter to me what your position is. You’ve got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you’ve got.

—Toni Morrison, from “The Truest Eye” by Pam Houston (oprah.com)