Reflections on Freedom

I find it tantalizingly strange that people who believe that we are victims of our environment tend to seem like victims of their environment, and people who believe that we are masters of our our destiny tend to seem like masters of their destiny.

Maybe we are both victims of our environment, and masters of our own destiny, the same as we are both physical (our body) and non-physical (our thoughts.) And maybe we belong to each category in proportion to how much we believe we belong to each category.

Perhaps our bodies are victims of our environment because they belong to our environment, and perhaps our minds are masters of our own destiny because they are not of the physical world.

The physical world effects our minds and helps shape them, but perhaps in the realm of pure thought we are free.

You know, like the guy in this song:



Or the guy in this vat:

http://www.sechumscm.org/WhereAmI.html

Or the guy who wrote these words, sitting inside on a lovely spring Saturday afternoon. Time to go become part of the environment.