"The most deeply compelled action is also..." - Quote by C S Lewis
The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action.
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“Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!”
“Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?”
“Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.”
More on Freedom
“The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.”
“If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.”
“The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.”
More on Action
“Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.”
“Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, performing an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us into a negative state of existence.”
“A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step and if that step is the right step, it becomes the last step.”