What makes us feel liberated is not total freedom, but rather living in a set of limitations that we have created and prescribed for ourselves.
Andrea Zittel • Andrea Zittel, "These Things I Know for Sure"
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What makes us feel liberated is not total freedom, but rather living in a set of limitations that we have created and prescribed for ourselves.
Ultimately, the only way to achieve meaning and a sense of importance in one’s life is through a rejection of alternatives, a narrowing of freedom, a choice of commitment to one place, one belief, or (gulp) one person.
Mark Manson • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned to myself for each one of my undertakings. I shall go even further: my freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes
... See moreScott Belsky • Making Ideas Happen
Cicero once wrote that to be completely free one must become a slave to a set of laws. In other words, accepting limitations is liberating.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
The ultimate freedom isn't freedom from structure but freedom within structure - the capacity to embody forms that serve life while remaining unbound by them. It's the freedom to predict and plan while staying open to being surprised, to know while remaining curious, to be someone while remembering the vastness from which that someone emerges.
Daniel Thorson • Predictive Processing and The Sacred
You are free once you base your life on one thing, your sense of self.