Too many people think freedom is the ability to do anything you want, instead of the discipline to not be a slave to your compulsions.
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Too many people think freedom is the ability to do anything you want, instead of the discipline to not be a slave to your compulsions.
‘I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It is knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth and then simply doing it.’
⁃ Natalie Goldberg, ‘Writing Down The Bones’
the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
Steven Pressfield • The War of Art
The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
Steven Pressfield • The War of Art
true freedom cannot be found without discipline.
“True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
~ Mortimer J. Adler
~ Mortimer J. Adler