Truth is love, love is free life

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Lyrics: Abdullah Öcalan
Mix and Mastering: Basel Med Ton Studyo
Collaboration: Tev-Çand Swisrê
Artistic concept: Zamāru Projekt of Jineolojî
Languages : Kurdish, English, Italian, Turkish, German, Spanish, Catalan, French

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Under the name of Zamāru Projekt, members of Jineolojî committees in Europe published a new international video music called “Truth is love, love is free life”. The lyrics has been composed by quotes of Abdullah Öcalan. In the frame of the on going international campaign for the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan, the aim of this project is to participate to spread his philosophy around the world.

Quotes :

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I believe that the greatest felicity is not found in splendid palaces but in simple huts surrounded by nature.
I believe that the virtue of life can be achieved by perceiving nature in all its colors, voices, and meanings and by becoming one with it.
I believe that real progress has nothing to do with huge cities and ruling authorities.

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To have a strong understanding of truth in relation to life is to achieve the most enjoyable moment in life, or rather the meaning of life. Life itself is a source of great excitement and enthusiasm. The meaning of the universe is hidden in life. As long as one understands this secret, there is no problem in enduring life even in a prison. For if prison is for freedom, what grows there is the understanding of truth. Living with a growing understanding of the truth, even the greatest suffering can be transformed into joy and happiness.

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I believe that the human being is the sum of the reality, as far as science explains it, that stretches from the assumed big bang, at least fifteen billion years ago, to today and spatially across the entire universe. I both feel and know that. In this sense, knowing thyself is synonymous with knowledge of all time and the entire universe. […] Getting to know means becoming aware, which, in turn means living life fearlessly in all its richness and strongly defending it!

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The ideas at the base of this defense draw on the legacy of democratic civilization. […] I am passionately devoted to the legacy of all the numerous fighters—including ours—who have struggled for their ideals and morals, for their peoples and communes. I hope to contribute to this legacy, even though it may be just a drop in the ocean.

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I absolutely hate the exaggerations that are circulating about me.
My passionate desire is to be understood in all my simplicity and to be a friend.
With time I have come to better understand that my personality, which receives life in its simplicity, full of passion, as a celebration of comradeship, has stood up against all those who have attacked me.

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No subject in the world is talked about as much as love, and yet love has never been as shameful and meaningless as it is today. […] From relationships that only last a fleeting moment to openly murderous behavior, from prosaic relationships to extremely dangerous ones, everything is called “love.” […] Reviving love is one of the most difficult of revolutionary tasks. It requires a great deal of labor, intellectual clarity, and love of humanity.

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It is very important to define the principles of comradeship. They play a decisive role. First of all, we must ask ourselves how we want to be comrades. Wherever someone comes from, whatever their rank, name, fame, age, sect, religion or nationality, we must ask ourselves: do we share the principles of comradeship or not?

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I think it is important not to be selfish when it comes to freedom and not to fall into reductionism that restricts freedom to humans. Can it be denied that the flutter of the bird in a cage is a flutter for freedom? What other concept could explain the twitter of a nightingale in a cage, more beautiful than any symphony, but the desire for freedom? If we go a step further, don’t all of the sounds and colors of the universe make us think of freedom? Can the struggle of women, the first and last slaves, who have experienced the most profound slavery of human society, be explained by anything other than their quest for freedom?

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As you can see, there are no limits to hopes and desires, and there is no serious obstacle to their realization other than human beings themselves. All it takes to realize them is a little social dignity and a little love and reason!

Abdullah Öcalan
one-person prison
Imrali Island