Name: 'Prayer is the greatest freedom of all' | BBC Ideas
Uploaded: 2021-12-13T17:50:53.000Z
Duration: 4 min 2 s
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I think that freedom everywhere, anywhere, is love.

Reflexive pronouns

Letting yourself be loved, which is always risky.

Adverbs of degree

I've been an monk here at Pluscarden for 47 years.

Prayer I suppose is the greatest freedom of all,

It's a gift and you just accept what comes.

How often in speech are we trying to do someone down

or demonstrate our superiority or all of that.

So you take your turn washing up, peeling the spuds, cooking the lunch,

which means, "What you possess, possesses you."

The less you've got, the more freedom you have.

a freedom which is quite hard to acquire in some ways

because letting go of things is detachment.

It's difficult but it's essential for freedom

Maybe your memory, maybe your sight, maybe your hearing, maybe mobility.

Because one day, you have to let go of your life -

But that's the only way to get to the freedom of eternal life.

It will be tough at times, everybody's life is tough at times.

But as they say, the retirement benefits are out of this world.

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'Prayer is the greatest freedom of all' | BBC Ideas

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