Monday Musings - We Must Love More If We Wish To Be Truly Free

"The only way to experience freedom that lasts and grows more and more intense is to love more and more. St. Paul tells the Corinthians it is not he who places restrictions on them but their own closed hearts (2 Cor 6:12). That is to say the lack of freedom arises from not loving enough. Love brings freedom. The more pure and intense love is, the more expansive is freedom. A loving heart is never closed. 

(Photo©Michael Seagriff)

Such freedom can be acquired (unlike the freedom of omnipotence of which we sometimes dream), but that takes time. Moreover, it is a grace, a gift of God, a fruit of the Holy Spirit. But once we can truly love God with all our heart, love any man or woman, whoever he or she may be, and love ourselves - fully accept ourselves, that is - we then are truly free."

 (Father Jacques Philippe from "Fire & Light - Learning To Receive The Gift of God")

 

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