According to the Declaration of Independence, we have been given certain unalienable rights by our creator, and we get to choose how we will use these rights.
Barbara Marx Hubbard, futurist, author and dear friend of mine, rewrote a line from the Declaration of Independence where she states, enlarging Thomas Jefferson’s great statement to say, “We hold these truths to be self-evident. All people are born creative, endowed by our Creator with the inalienable right to realize our creativity, for the good
of ourselves and the world.”
That is true freedom. So – Freedom, as a Quality of God is about our ability to make choices and that’s what the Law of Attraction is all about.
When it’s put that way, who doesn’t want freedom? How come we are not living in
total freedom all the time. And yet, most of us reject the gift of FREEDOM because along with it comes RESPONSIBILITY!
Freedom does not mean the right to do whatever one wants. Freedom is not license! Freedom also doesn’t mean free from consequences. That’s what we don’t like about the law. There’s no sin, there are only actions and their consequences. Often rather than accept responsibility for our consequences, we claim actually not to be free. Most of us say, “I didn’t have a choice.” How many times do you hear yourself say that? Isn’t that interesting? Who does? Who chooses your life? Who chooses the things that are happening? Is it someone else out there? It’s so amazing. I remember Stephen Covey at a seminar telling a story about a student coming to him and saying, I’m in this tennis final and I have to miss the last class. And Stephen Covey said, “You HAVE to?” And the student said, ‘Yes, I have no choice. I’m in these finals.” And Covey worked with him until this young boy could say, “I’m choosing to go to these finals instead of coming to class.” And when he said that, Covey said, “Of course, go to the finals.”
