Real joy means immediate expansion. If we experience pure joy, immediately our heart expands. We feel that we are flying in the divine freedom-sky. The entire length and breadth of the world becomes ours, not for us to rule over, but as an expansion of our consciousness. We become reality and vastness.
Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it.
The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
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