Our moral freedom reaches as far as our consciousness and, thus, our liberation from compulsion and captivity. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, pages 546-547 (from C.J. Depth Psychology)
These days, because of my activities in helping the Iranian people, I have been deeply involved in establishing a fair and just system based on sound laws to help the Iranian people. However, finding a suitable constitution for a young nation (in the term of democracy) is not easy. It is not only the laws that make society fair; every individual must learn how to live in a democratic society.
Understanding freedom depends on the laws and anti-laws we legislate! Kahlil Gibran has an excellent explanation. I hope you enjoy it.
From The Prophet
People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
Then the lawyer said, but what of our laws, master?
And he answered:
You delight in laying down laws,
Yet you delight more in breaking them.
Like children playing by the ocean who build sand towers with constancy and then destroy them with laughter.
But while you build your sand towers, the ocean brings more sand to the shore, and when you destroy them, the ocean laughs with you.
Verily, the ocean always laughs with the innocent.
But what of those to whom life is not an ocean, and man-made laws are not sand towers,
But to whom life is a rock, and the law a chisel with which they would carve it in their own likeness?
What of the cripple who hates dancers?
What of the ox who loves his yoke and deems the elk and deer of the forest stray and vagrant thin?
What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin
and calls all others naked and shameless?
And of him who comes early to the wedding feast and, when over-fed and tired, goes his way, saying that all feasts are violations and all feasters are lawbreakers?
What shall I say of these save that they, too, stand in the sunlight, but with their backs to the sun?
They see only their shadows, and their shadows are their laws.
And what is the sun to them but a caster of shadows?
And what is it to acknowledge the laws but to stoop down and trace their shadows upon the earth?
But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you?
You who travel with the wind, what weather vane shall direct your course?
What man’s law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man’s prison door?
What shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man’s iron chains?
And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man’s path?
People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum and loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
Thank you! 🙏💕💥
lampmagician 
💗
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks for this great post and the wonderful quotes!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you, my dear Luisa. I am thrilled you like it. 🙏💖🤗
LikeLiked by 1 person
You’re so welcome, dear Aladin 🙏🌹🙏
LikeLiked by 1 person
And you more… 💖💖🤗😘
LikeLiked by 1 person
What a powerful reminder of how lost we are in the United States and much of the world. Thank you for sharing this, Aladin. I’ll be digesting these truths for a while. There are so many unanswered questions and we seem no closer to answering them in our moral paralysis.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Questioning and searching for the answers. That is what you utter, my lovely Elaine. And that remains for us all, forever. Thank you!🙏💖🙏
LikeLike
Excellent! I enjoyed this post Aladin, thank you for sharing. In my humble opinion, I believe that many people enjoy breaking laws more than they enjoy making them. It’s interesting how, on the one hand rules are necessary yet on the other, they’re restrictive. I guess learning to hold the tension and finding balance between each opposite is probably the wisest thing for us to do. Love and light, Deborah.
LikeLiked by 1 person
The Balance! You got the point, my dear angel. How long do we still need to learn… no one knows! Bless you, and love.💖💖
LikeLiked by 1 person
A though provoking post. I am an idealist and a socialist. However, I recognize the danger of such a system as it does not encourage independent thought, innovation, and moral improvement. People may become complacent. There must be balance. Good luck, and thank you for helping future generations establish moral and political systems!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Amen! I must call out, dear wise friend: Balance is the keyword. I feel on your way and happy to have your support.🙏🖖
LikeLike
It’s interesting how the law makers are so often the law breakers whilst the mere mortal citizens are punished for the very same acts. Thank you for this Aladin, The Prophet is filled with so much wisdom…time for a re-read!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Indeed, dear Lin. The breadth of wisdom is endless!🙏🤗💖
LikeLiked by 1 person