We all have a fundamental right to live free from fear, free from crime, and free from disorder - but while we share that right, we also share the duty to secure it.
Interpretation
We have the right to live without fear, but we must also take responsibility for maintaining that security.
This quote emphasizes the duality of rights and responsibilities in society. While everyone is entitled to a safe and secure life, achieving that security requires collective action and commitment from all individuals to contribute towards a crime-free and orderly environment. It highlights the importance of mutual responsibility in ensuring the safety and freedom of all members in a community.
In practice
This quote would be appropriate in a community meeting focused on safety initiatives.
If an African-American or a recent immigrant - or anyone else, for that matter - can't feel secure walking into a police station or up to a police officer to report a crime, because of a fear that they're not going to be treated well, then everything else that we promise is on a shaky foundation.
I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).
He found himself still with too many questions and not enough answers.
Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.
All progression is in the relative world.
You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you've become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you're really screwed.
The human condition: lost in thought.
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