In the spirit of the 4th of July (hey better late than never right?)...

"True Independence Is Liberation From The Condition Of

  The Mind."

I heard this uniquely insightful statement this afternoon during a kundalini yoga class with one of my favorite instructors, Kia Miller and thought to myself, "Wow, I wonder what our forefathers would think about the condition of the average contemporary mind..."

My Conclusion: Our forefathers would find the contemporary mind overly contaminated by unnecessary stimuli and undernourished with the purity of Truth.