Our original freedom was the freedom to be our True Self---the freedom to live in the whole truth of the moment---attractive and unattractive. This takes far more courage than we might imagine. Great religions offer us, not just freedom from our small illusion (often called "sin") but freedom for the Big Picture. That's why the saints could be imprisoned and not lose their spirit. They could be put down and persecuted like Jesus and still not lose their joy, their heart, or their perspective. Their freedom came from within. Our freedom 'from' finally and eventually becomes our freedom 'for.' We must always seek the positive and full meaning of freedom, which nation-states know little about. Secular freedom is having to do what we want to do. Religious freedom is wanting to do what we have to do.
Source: Everything Belongs by Richard Rohr
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