Freedom from what?
Freedom from fear so you can plan to achieve your goals in life. Freedom to swing your arms, but alert where the other person's nose begins.
Freedom from anything that you can do without as the years go on: beliefs, possessions?
What are these beliefs? Belief in the Almighty God? Belief in the sanctity of marriage? Belief in the karmic law?
What are these possessions that must be thrown away or given to others?
Books, old newspapers and magazines, old shirts, old brand jeans, old brand rubber shoes, diplomas hanging on the walls.
Do you need them when you cross the Great Divide?
Expand, expand. Ideas are not coming. Are they locked somewhere in the mind? Or the ideas are just not there in a corner of the old mind?
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Quotations from great writers in fiction
"A writer is at his best only when writing within the character and range of deepest sympathies."--Willa Cather
"The job of the fiction writer is simply to make actual the mystery of our position on earth."--Flannery O'Connor
"The greatest poverty is not to live in a physical world, to feel that one's desire is to difficult to tell from despair."--Wallace Stevens
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