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Solane Star
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posted January 18, 2008 02:27 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Solane Star     Edit/Delete Message
On freedom

"Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us."

-- Stephen Covey

A Greek myth can help us understand the freedom that comes with power of choice.

In the Underworld, Sisyphus was condemned to roll a large stone up a hill from which it always rolled down again. Realistically, he was trapped in an endless cycle of rolling the stone. When he perceived himself to be imprisoned by the curse, he was a victim.

At one point, however, he turned the tables -- he changed his mind and decided to CHOOSE to roll the stone up the hill. In doing so, he empowered himself and defused the curse.

"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."

-- Jean-Paul Sartre

"One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison."

-- Plato

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Charlotte
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posted January 18, 2008 02:36 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Charlotte     Edit/Delete Message

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SimpleMe
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posted January 18, 2008 02:55 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for SimpleMe     Edit/Delete Message
so and so said

what does it mean for you S S?


your experiences?

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