How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World

You can’t be something you aren’t. Don’t tell yourself you can do things if your experience tells you that you can’t. First, you’ll have to increase your ability to deal with such situations; and that takes more than false confidence.

You can enslave yourself by assuming a responsibility to observe, judge, and correct any social problems. For the problems will continue indefinitely.

Take a look at your own life. What could you do today that would give you more freedom tomorrow morning?

Recognize that you’re seeing only part of what’s involved; you can’t see everything. You just don’t have the time and opportunity to check out everything.

most people look for security where it can’t be found — and in the process they become even more insecure. They hope that someone outside

The Group Trap comes packaged in many wrappings. In its broadest form, it is any economic system that separates achievements from rewards.

What we view as a social injustice is merely someone’s method of seeking happiness. If you think that someone or some group of people is unjustly poor, your opinion implies that someone else should be giving them more money — through jobs or charity. That “someone else” is the person whose happiness seeking methods disturb you.

There’s a way that depends entirely upon what you choose to do. You can be free without changing the world. You can live your life as you want to live it — no matter what others decide to do with their lives.

It isn’t essential that you know the final truth about everything in the world; and you don’t have the resources to discover it. Instead, the test to be applied to any idea is: does it work? Does your identification of things lead to the consequences you expect?