Daily Meditation: Friday, June 14, 2024

Freedom - efforts to be spiritually free

06/14/2024

You believe yourselves to be free simply because you are in a position to do as you like. Yet, if you analyze yourselves, you will see that many of your choices are dictated by certain overriding instincts, desires or appetites, which you cannot resist. Your freedom is therefore more apparent than real. How valiantly human beings have fought to be free! Even death has often seemed preferable to the loss of freedom. What a pity that they have never made the same efforts or fought so courageously to be spiritually free. They are interested only in external freedom; their inner enslavement does not bother them. Those who are in a position to satisfy all their basest tendencies think that they are free. No, it is precisely in this instance that they are slaves.*