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  • I think that freedom everywhere, anywhere, is love.

  • Letting yourself be loved, which is always risky.

  • And loving, which is maybe even riskier.

  • I've been an monk here at Pluscarden for 47 years.

  • Prayer I suppose is the greatest freedom of all,

  • because

  • it's a relationship,

  • it's a gift of God,

  • it's very mysterious I think.

  • It's a gift and you just accept what comes.

  • Silence is an enabling thing.

  • It frees you for

  • listening, for availability,

  • for avoiding imposing yourself.

  • How often in speech are we trying to do someone down

  • or demonstrate our superiority or all of that.

  • So, silence frees you from those things.

  • Most monks do all sorts of things.

  • So you take your turn washing up, peeling the spuds, cooking the lunch,

  • driving the car.

  • Many little jobs.

  • Just like a family.

  • Habere est Haberi,

  • which means, "What you possess, possesses you."

  • The less you've got, the more freedom you have.

  • And that's

  • a freedom which is quite hard to acquire in some ways

  • because letting go of things is detachment.

  • It's difficult but it's essential for freedom

  • because as our lives go on,

  • you have to let go of things.

  • Maybe your memory, maybe your sight, maybe your hearing, maybe mobility.

  • You've got to let them go.

  • Because one day, you have to let go of your life -

  • the ultimate impoverishment.

  • But that's the only way to get to the freedom of eternal life.

  • It will be tough at times, everybody's life is tough at times.

  • But as they say, the retirement benefits are out of this world.

I think that freedom everywhere, anywhere, is love.

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'Prayer is the greatest freedom of all' | BBC Ideas

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