Still Free

[E]verything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. ~Viktor Frankl, who lived to write about their experiences in concentration camps

The worst that could happen to us is that we have to die, and since that is already our unalterable fate, we are free. ~Carlos Castaneda

What an image to end the old year and start the new one: we are free by design and fate, and we can do nothing to negate this most essential fact and most precious gift of our humanness. Even our rejection of the fact and gift of our freedom does not change the fact or gift. Freedom still is, unalterable from the beginning – and always new. ~jpc

At the end of 2005 and the beginning of 2006, you and I are still free, and always will be. Namaste.

Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/O. Krause (Steward Observatory) image, 2005; we keep on discovering our universe