We cannot feel a base, a foundation for freedom, nowhere can we find some solid element which determines freedom from within. Freedom of the spirit is a bottomless well. Our substantial nature could not be the basis of freedom. On the contrary, all nature is born of freedom. Freedom proceeds not from nature, but from God's idea and from the abyss which preceded being.
Freedom is rooted in 'nothingness'.
The act of freedom is primordial and completely irrational. Freedom is not only man's freedom, but man's fate as well. This fated freedom is the most mysterious phenomenon of human existence. Truly there is nothing more torturing and unbearable for man, than freedom. Man's freedom is indissolubly linked with his obligations.