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.
You realize that you never really needed the feeling of complete security you’d previously felt so desperate to attain. This is a liberation.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
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
Creativity is born of limitations, not freedom