"The real essence of freedom is more in what you are free NOT to do than in what you are free to do. It is the freewill-power to refrain, abstain, and withdraw from acting that bestows freedom with its ultimate power—the rational, moral, and spiritual power. Freedom is the state of inner attunement with the highest spiritual principle operative inside human consciousness, while freewill is the self-generative intention originating from the same highest spiritual source. Thus, freedom is a spiritual activity while freewill is a spiritual power. Therefore, the freedom to do without the freedom not to do, perverts freedom to impulsivity and debases autonomy to automaticity.
Freedom can be experienced and understood but cannot be explained or proved. An explanation or proof, to be valid, intrinsically requires an internal logical necessity and explicatory causality, which voids from the system of explanation the very substance of freedom which makes freedom actually freedom. For this reason, those philosophers and scientists who confuse explanations with reality deny the reality of freedom, calling it an illusion. The illusion, however, is their explanation, not freedom. Freedom is possible in reality and only when you are free, you can experience what it means to be human in its full existential potential and evolutionary possibility".
- Yasuhiko Genku Kimura
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