Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility. “No simple deed is ever performed, such as a
preparing a meal, reading a paragraph, or writing a letter, without ignoring a thousand
allurements. Attention shuts out
literally hundreds of distracting sights and sounds, forbids hundreds of inward
promptings that would divert us from the task at hand.” Robert R. Wicks
We are free to choose but we are not
free to choose the consequences of our choices.
Happy
that I can
Be crossed and thwarted as a man,
Not left in God’s contempt apart,
With ghastly smooth life, dead at
heart,
Tame in earth’s paddock as her prize.
Browning, “Easter-Day”
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