Notable Quotable – Echo Zoe Ministries

“Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.”
Wayne Dyer

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Jim Pfaff
Wednesday, July 13, 2005, 6:22 pm

This actually is not consistent with freedom as defined (I think accurately) in the Declaration of Independence. “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” consists of some clearly defined concepts: namely that Happiness implies proper self-government pursued through “right living.” John Adams saw this clearly when he commented to Abigail in a letter written to her shortly after the close of teh Constitutional Convention. He said, “this Constitution was created for for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the Government of any other.” My reading of American history and of authors influential upon our founders such as John Locke, William Blackstone, Montesquieu, and–for that matter–the Bible shows that Adams’ statement is consistent with the thinking of the time among our early leaders. The development of a government of laws implies that men are imperfect beings capable of doing others harm if allowed to live in an unobstructed manner and therefore restrictions upon human action are consistent with Liberty. A government–or a life–free of obstruction is not freely lived nor unobstructed as a result of others’ lack of restraint. The end result on a personal level is chaos: on a governmental level at best socialism and at worst totalitarianism. Therefore, Mr. Dyer’s axiom if lived out is, in my opinion, personally destructive and antithetical to true Freedom.