It’s natural. It’s not about your appearance, usually the way your views come about… your appearance starts to go differently from others. You tend to want to be different than those who, dont understand you. You really dont BECOME a hippie.
Do you love people, even if they have hate in their hearts?
Do you feel free, even if your trapped?
Do you not care what other people think of you?
Its about freedom, to be yourself… and not
to be something your not…
YOu may want to be a hippie, but
It only comes natural, with the views you have
The hippie culture.. .Doesn’t care about the label
Its about Fun loving, Hug Brigades,Bliss, Drum Jams, Fire dancing, Freedom..
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Some say it’s the way people dress, and behave, a lifestyle. Others classify drug users and rock ‘n’ roll fans or those with certain radical political views as hippies. The dictionary defines a hippie as one who doesn’t conform to society’s standards and advocates a liberal attitude and lifestyle. Can all these definitions be right?
It seems to me that these definitions miss the point.
a matter of accepting a universal belief system that transcends the social, political, and moral norms of any established structure, be it a class, church, or government. Each of these powerful institutions has it’s own agenda for controlling, even enslaving people. Each has to defend itself when threatened by real or imagined enemies. So we see though history a parade of endless conflicts, in which uncounted millions have suffered, we have yet to rise above our petty differences.
you must believe in peace as the way to resolve differences among peoples, ideologies and religions. The way to peace is through love and tolerance. Loving means accepting others as they are, giving them freedom to express themselves and not judging them based on appearances. This is the core of the hippie philosophy.
*Freedom to do as one pleases, go where the flow takes you, and to be open to new experiences. This engenders an attitude that allows for maximum personal growth.
Other beliefs that spring from our core philosophy are: an earthy spirituality such as a belief in Gaia (the earth as an organism), the Greens movement (political activism), even shamanism and vegetarianism.
The goal is not to make everyone a hippie.Rather we can try to influence others by example, through tolerance and love and teaching the virtues of the hippie way.
So being a hippie is not a matter of dress, behavior, economic status, or social milieu. It is a philosophical approach to life that emphasizes freedom, peace, love and a respect for others and the earth. The way of the hippie never died. There have always been hippies from the first time society laid down rules, to Jesus, to Henry David Thoreau, to John Lennon, to you and me.
Need to find our common ground, build a worldwide community, and once again let our freak flags fly and become all we are destined to be.
you can discover who you really are, and express your unique individuality.