Wednesday, March 13, 2002
Freedom
"Freedom is the natural state arising from an understanding of our nature, our condition as transitory, unique individuals within a universe whose essence is constant, rhythmic change. This process of understanding should not be interpreted as the equivalent of knowledge, which is little more than the accumulation and classification of facts, but more as the power to apprehend relationships and make inferences from them." From an essay I wrote in 1969