With the consequence that we never discover their limits. And the narrowness lulls us into a state of permanent drowsiness, like being half anaesthetised, so that we never attempt to stretch our powers to their limits. It is as if you tried to see a panoramic scene through cracks in a high fence, but were never allowed to look over the fence and see it as a whole. In that case, what goes wrong? The trouble is the narrowness of consciousness.
The vision is not an illusion or a mirage. I have always accepted the fundamental reality of freedom. When he gets her, the whole thing seems an illusion she is just a girl… Similarly, a man who is violently in love feels that if he could possess the girl, his freedom would be infinite the delight of union would make him undefeatable.
When I am confronted by danger or crisis, I see it as a threat to freedom, and my freedom suddenly becomes positive and self-evident – as enormous and obvious as a sunset. But when a civil servant retires after forty years, and finds himself curiously bored and miserable, the idea of freedom becomes blurred and indefinite it seems to shimmer like a mirage. When the German tanks rolled into Warsaw, or the Russians into Budapest, it seemed perfectly obvious what we meant by freedom it was something solid and definite that was being stolen, as a burglar might steal the silver. The Occult will shake the foundation of your being like an earthquake shakes the ground beneath your feet, thereby leading you to be who you really are–or rather capable of becoming–if you can gather the strength to endure the shock of truth and find the courage within to let it set you free from your self-imposed ignorance and misery… Read this book at your own risk…Ī SINGLE OBSESSIONAL IDEA RUNS THROUGH ALL my work: the paradoxical nature of freedom.
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