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.
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
Please understand this: Man’s greatest dilemma is that he lives in a prison and he believes that he is free. The man who knows that he lives in a prison will find a way to break free of it. But the one who believes that he is free while being imprisoned will remained imprisoned forever.
Kapil Gupta • Atmamun
taught him “freedom from” without teaching “freedom for”?