Free Speech

I resisted sharing my work, my voice, my labor of love. I share my voice with people I trust - those who have earned that trust through time spent together one-on-one and in partnership. It is not as if I hold back saying what I feel, for I do not. I always have something to say.

It is whether I give myself away for “free” or not, for I have learned to value my own opinion - and in a sea of opinions, it is quick to sink the ship when others have their sails and their boats afloat to survive, yet do not always have the willingness to confide in what is true. For the amount of love that is given away for free is unbearable for those who have the hearts to contain so much love.

It is difficult to bear witness to a world that would rather die by its sword than admit it has been wrong - to admit that one’s voice is not the only opinion that matters, to admit that while we seem to care about one another, is it true? There are many who are willing to give away their money for “free speech”, yet it is money made from the profits of others, and there are many who have not profited at all for the time they have spent serving the world.

The ability to truly define what it means to give of oneself - it is as if that does not pay. It pays nothing other than the right to be present in someone’s life, to share in the level of suffering that is apparently required to live upon this planet. There have been times in which I have allowed myself to “speak freely”, and there are times when I have not - for the times when I have held back have been in observation of whether or not it is worth my breath, my time, or my energy to share of the heart, when the heart is not so easily received.

It is within the self that one determines one’s own sense of value and worth. It is not as if another is able to give someone the opinion that they are valuable or not, for it is easy to determine for oneself how one feels about that which is perceived as one’s own value. It is in your own words and your own speech. It is in the way you define your reality. It is in the way you define what is upon your heart.

If you have given away your voice “for free” and found yourself feeling unwell about the words you have chosen to give, you may see that those words were not in your best interest to speak. If anything comes out of your mouth and feels like doubt, or if you must shout to be heard, or center yourself by discounting another’s view - then what is it that you truly stand for other than ego? What is it that you truly stand for other than the echo of your own voice reverberating from a chest that feels under attack?

For what good does it do to have free speech when the speech that is given is freely discounted, judged, or dismissed - when one says (without saying), ‘I am unable to hear you because I am distracted by the bling of my phone” or “the bling of the TV”, while a human being stands before them unseen?

It is not as if we are all innocent from having done harm to ourselves or another. It is not as if we are innocent of having done harm to our minds by absorbing too much content, or of giving away speech that retracts into our own mind and confuses what is true for us.

For if we regurgitate the words of others - words that do not matter, words that do not bring us into integrity - then what is it that we are truly saying? There are many who latch onto an idea they believe will line their pockets with gold. They will speak freely if it brings them profit, yet do they believe what they say? Do they even trust it?

It has become the norm to give oneself away for free without valuing what it means to be human - to have a mind that can think for itself, if only it allows space for thoughts to arise from the heart.

“Free speech” has depopulated community, for though people may stand in physical proximity, they are often absent in spirit and in love. Distraction gives the illusion of presence, yet it is presence without connection - reality without awareness.

To claim your own space, your own mind, your own sensibility - to feel what it feels like to express from your truth - this is freedom. For the words you speak to yourself are the truest mirror.

When speech arises from meaning, from the core of your essence, from the heart - it becomes sacred. Yet many leave this life wishing they had spoken differently, lived differently, or shared more of themselves.

It is easy to see on the other side of the veil how we have self-sabotaged, how we’ve been trampled by our own words, or trampled others through lack of integrity. Yet life continues to invite us to express with awareness - to speak not just freely, but truthfully.

Speech is not limited to words - it includes the art you create, the work you do, the way you move through the world. You are free to design, to innovate, to bring forth opportunities that serve others and elevate life. There is nothing more freeing than giving from the well that overflows from inspiration and divine idea.

Do not consider your speech valuable to another if you are not taking your own advice. For what good does it do to stand single file in a world where everyone is watching the back of the person before them, and no one is turning to face the self?

At the end of your days, you will see clearly that every conversation you had was a conversation with yourself - spoken for yourself, through yourself, to yourself. What you speak into the world, you are first speaking into your own being.

If the words you are speaking are those you wish to receive, then share them freely. If not, let silence do its sacred work.

For life is created through speech - through the breath, through the word, through the awareness of what you are saying.

Do not fear being silenced; simply mature your message. Learn to pause. Sit in silence. Listen to your own thoughts before you give them to the world. Feel whether what arises serves love or separation.

If what you are thinking or speaking harms yourself or another, you are free not to speak it. You are free to choose again.

There is no shame in recognizing that much of what humanity calls thought or opinion is simply noise - a frequency not born of the true self. There is great peace in letting the fight end within yourself, in releasing the inner guard that readies itself to defend every word it hears.

Even hate speech, beneath its surface, is simply a being expressing pain, sadness, regret, or shame. Beneath all of it lies the same invitation - to return to awareness and choose love again.

This is how we cleanse the collective - one heart at a time. By allowing ourselves to feel what we feel, to respect our own boundaries, and to consciously respond from what we value.

You are a being of awareness, a being of focus, a being capable of remembering the love that travels upon your breath, your mind, and your very being.

And so it is.

Contemplations on Free Speech - Return to the Integrity of Expression

1. When I speak, do I speak to be heard - or to hear myself more clearly?

2. What would change in my life if I only spoke from the part of me that feels at peace?

3. How might my relationships evolve if I listened to my own speech as sacred vibration, shaping my inner and outer world?

4. EXPANSION- What becomes possible for humanity when our speech - spoken, written, or silent - is guided by love rather than the need to be right?

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