Christianity teaches that you should choose the one thing needful, but in
such a way that there must be no question of any choice. That is, if you
fool around a long time, then you are not really choosing the one thing
needful. Consequently, the very fact that there is no choice expresses the
tremendous passion or intensity with which one chooses. Can there be a
more
accurate expression for the fact that freedom of choice is only a formal
condition of freedom and that emphasizing freedom of choice as such means
the sure loss of freedom? The very truth of freedom of choice is that
there
must be no choice, even though there is a choice.
