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"Freedom is a word that is so loosely used that it no longer has real significance.

Though we talk about it endlessly in school, in college, politically and religiously, we really don’t want freedom.

What we want is complete security in all our ways of life.

We revolt against authority but we are really rebelling to express our demand for identity and action.

Freedom is really a dangerous thing.

It is freedom from the total misery, confusion that exists both inwardly and outwardly.

The total denial of the structure of ideas and action based on those ideas is freedom. It is not an expression of rampant individual selfishness. The denial of that too, not verbally but actually, is freedom.

To stand alone without isolating oneself is sanity.

Sanity means health, wholeness and also holiness.

In this state there is no imbalance.

This is freedom.

This freedom is not an idea, a concept, but is sane living in our daily life. The action of the insane is one thing but this action is another, leading to the flowering of goodness.

If you observe the world about you, you see how insane it all is: mothers sending their sons to war to kill and be killed; the divisions of religion and governments with their conflict and their corruption; the talk of peace while preparing for war; the endless breaking up of human beings into categories, temperaments, with their gurus and analysts.