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Freedom:

“You feel you were hedged in you dream of escape; but beware of mirages. Do not run or fly away in order to get free: rather dig in the narrow place which has been given you; you will find God there and everything. God does not float on your horizon, he sleeps in your substance. Vanity runs, love digs. If you fly away from yourself, your prison will run with you and will close in because of the wind of your flight; if you go deep down into yourself it will disappear in paradise.

A quote of Gustave Thibon; given in a lecture by Gabriel Marcel, 1942)

Or. as Jesus once said, whoever loses their life for my sake will find it - Matthew 10:39

Page 76 of Smith, “On the Road with Saint Augustine”

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