Freedom

Dear WeStrive Community,

This morning, at 12:00A exactly, a community-wide research opportunity came to a close: it was an effort in co-creating the materials for this weekend’s Meet-up around the theme of social media’s effects in and on our lives. We invited our network to share their answers to three questions in any way that they wanted—email, text, Tweet, a message, a videoblog—and we received some wonderful answers! Tomorrow we will release the co-created video that Meet-ups around the world will be able work with during their gatherings. The three questions we posed were meant to inspire us all to begin to really understand just how effective social media is:

• What is social media?
• How does social media impact my life?
• How can I use it to benefit and do good in the world?

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“And from a cliff-top is proclaimed

The gathering of souls for birth,

The trial by existence named,

The obscuration upon earth

And the slant spirits trooping by

In streams and cross and counter-streams

Can but give ear to that sweet cry

For its suggestion of what dreams!”

(Robert Frost, “The Trial by Existence”)

With these words, Robert Frost offers us an idea of what it is to be a “spiritual being having an earthly experience.” Read more »

Dear Friends,
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In January 2010, WeStrive and Think OutWord teamed up to offer a unique opportunity for community network members to participate in an essay challenge. The following essay was selected as the winning essay, affording the winner a free flight and conference attendence to Think OutWord's conference on agreements.
 
“Thus you can see how in the human being the two great ideals, freedom and love, grow together.  Freedom and love are also that which man, standing in the world, can bring to realization in himself in such a way that, through him, the one unites with the other for the good of the world.” -Rudolf Steiner

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“In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.” - Henri Frederic Amiel
 
Health is easily alleged to be the greatest of human treasures. It is a valuable and fundamentally essential quality of our existence and generally perceptible only when it is lacking. But can we also understand its nature when it happens to be present in our lives?
 
I invite everyone to reflect on this question. For it seems that a true understanding of health is intimately tied into a deeper understanding of ourselves, which as living dynamic beings, suggests our understanding of health must reveal an equally living and dynamic complexity.
 
As it is stated in the above quote, health can be traced to questions of freedom and also in turn, necessity. Being able to fully live out life’s destiny is an intimate question that can become intensified for many who struggle and suffer through illness. Read more »

 


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