(assuming you think any path is 'right')
2007-03-14 15:51:31 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Good question. Freedom is greater because it allows you to choose the "right path" according to your own free will the best way that you see fit. Take it easy.
2007-03-14 15:55:42 · answer #1 · answered by Adam B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I value the freedom to choose the right path for me. I do not claim to be the only right path. There are many roads to God.
2007-03-14 22:55:19 · answer #2 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
""Freedom is not a matter of place. It is a condition. I was thankful for the prison and the lack of liberty was very pleasing to me, for those days were passed in the path of service under the utmost difficulties and trials, bearing fruits and results.
"Unless one accepts dire vicissitudes he will not attain. To me prison is freedom; troubles rest me; incarceration is an open court; death is life and to be despised is honor. Therefore, I was happy all that time in prison. When one is released from the prison of self, that is indeed freedom, for self is the greater prison. When this release takes place, one can never be imprisoned. They used to put my feet in stocks so," and he put out his feet before him to illustrate and laughed as though it were a joke he enjoyed.
"I would say to the guard 'You cannot imprison me, for here I have light and air and bread and water. There will come a time when my body will be in the ground and I shall have neither light nor air nor food nor water, but even then i shall not be imprisoned.' The afflictions which come to humanity sometimes tend to center the consciousness upon the limitations. This is a veritable prison. Release comes by making of the will a door through which the confirmations of the spirit come."
This sounded so like the old theology that the modern within me rebelled doubting if the discipline really compensated for the effort.
"What do you mean by the confirmations of the spirit?" I asked.
"The confirmations of the spirit are all those powers and gifts with which some are born and which men sometimes call genius, but for which others have to strive with infinite pains. They come to that man or woman who accepts his life with radiant acquiescence."
Radiant acquiescence -- that was the quality with which we were suddenly seemed inspired as Abdul Baha bade us good-bye.
It was a remarkable experience, hearing one who had passed along the prison path for forty years declare, "There is no prison save the prison of self"; and it drove conviction to the heart as this white-robed messenger from the East pointed the way out; not by renunciation, but by radiant acquiescence -- the shining pathway out of the "greater prison of self.""
(Abdu'l-Baha, Divine Philosophy, p. 20)
"How can we get the power to follow the right path?
By putting the teaching into practice power will be given. You know which path to follow: you cannot be mistaken, for there's a great distinction between God and evil, between Light and darkness, Truth and falsehood, Love and hatred, Generosity and meanness, Education and ignorance, Faith in God and superstition, good Laws and unjust laws."
(Abdu'l-Baha, Abdu'l-Baha in London, p. 64)
2007-03-15 00:15:21 · answer #3 · answered by Gravitar or not... 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the main thing that matters is that we have the freedom to pursue the "Right" path.
2007-03-14 22:55:36 · answer #4 · answered by Xx Kesshin Xx 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
freedom to do what you feel is right not what someone else tells you
2007-03-14 22:55:53 · answer #5 · answered by Wolfman the MFER 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
freedom of conscience....
2007-03-14 23:06:29 · answer #6 · answered by beatlefan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋