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LIBERTY

By Swami Vivekananda

This life is a tremendous assertion of freedom; and this obedience to law, carried far enough, would make us simply matter — either in society, or in politics, or in religion.

Too many laws are a sure sign of death. Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die.

*To care only for spiritual liberty and not for social liberty is a defect, but the opposite is a still greater defect. Liberty of both soul and body is to be striven for.

*All our struggle is for freedom. We seek neither misery nor happiness, but freedom, freedom alone.

*Always free on the spiritual plane; never free on the mental and physical — hence the struggle.

*The constitutional belief in freedom is the basis of all reasoning.

*"Freedom, Oh Freedom! Freedom, Oh Freedom!" is the song of the soul.

 

 

Niagara Falls Reporter www.niagarafallsreporter.com Nov 06 , 2012