"Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty" (I Cor. 3:17). The coming of the Holy Spirit is an experience of being inwardly free — free from all the compulsive plans and fears and thoughts which are centered on ourselves, or rather on our imaginary selves, and which form the medium through which we normally experience and recognize ourselves.
"Inner freedom is the absolute condition of the knowledge of God," said Maximus.
— Seraphim Sigrist, Theology of Wonder