This lecture is a brilliant encapsulation of Arendt’s widely influential arguments on revolution, and why the American Revolution—unlike all those preceding it—was uniquely able to install political freedom. “The Freedom to be Free” was first published in Thinking Without a Banister, a varied collection of Arendt’s essays, lectures, reviews, interviews, speeches, and editorials—which, taken together, manifest the relentless activity of her mind and character and contain within them the articulations of wide and sophisticated range of her political thought. A Vintage Shorts Selection. An ebook short.

Founder and spiritual teacher A. H. Almaas continues his study of the Diamond Approach to uncovering the many facets of our human potential We live in a world of mystery, wonder, and beauty. But most of us seldom participate in this real world, being focused rather on the parts that are mostly strife, suffering, or meaninglessness. The situation is basically due to our not realizing and living our full human potential. This potential can be actualized by the realization and development of human essence. The human essence is the part of us that is innate and real, and which can participate in the real world. Comprised of transcriptions of A. H. Almaas' talks to inner-work groups in Colorado and California, The Freedom to Be is the second installment in a five-volume series on the Diamond Approach.

We all seek freedom yet remain in chains. This is a story of spiritual freedom which must preface political freedom.

In today's world we question authority like nothing else in the past and we demand freedom to do so without fear nor favor, without persecution, as our forefathers have tragically suffered and with freedom to do so uninhibited. This book, "FREEDOM TO BE", in poetic verse, in plain language and in everyday living appertaining to this, our human condition in this, our 21st century on our home planet earth, sees things as they appear to the author writing without fear nor favor. Augustus extends freedom of thought to all readers respecting their interpretation, their self expression and their self determination.