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“It makes very little difference whether a bird is tied by a thin thread or by a cord. Even if it is tied by a thread, the bird will be held bound just as surely as if it were by a cord… Admittedly the thread is easier to break, but no matter how easily this may be done, the bird will not fly away without first doing so… No matter how much virtue they have they will not reach the freedom of divine union.”