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Sunday, May 18, 2003

Freedom comes about in the moment of transcending the self, thus rising above the habit of regarding the self as its own end. Freedom is an act of self-engagement of the spirit, a spiritual event. Abraham Joshua Heschel portrays a slightly different view of freedom than we normally percieve, from "God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism".
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"How he coughs and how he spits Is quickly aped by lesser wits." --Friedrich Schiller
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