Awareness (Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis)

As the image of God, people should be self-aware, free and in control of themselves, because if awareness is taken away from them, they become unfree and are ruled by others. They’re unworthy of their high calling, such a sublime destination which is what their divine Creator wanted for them.

So personal freedom is a necessary consequence of our high mission of the training of our character and of our presence in the world.

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