Often, our attachment to personal freedom becomes its own kind of slavery.
When we demand freedom with no bounds, our endless right to choose, it's incredibly difficult to
enter into a relationshipmake a promise we'll have to keepmake a decision (because any decision closes off options)publish a blog post, letter, report, book
Our demand that we keep everything open closes off the very possibility of taking many kinds of action. In this way freedom becomes its own kind of slavery, a trap disguised as liberation.As a result it's often only through willingly submitting ourselves to particular kinds of limitation that we find any kind of freedom at all. In order to
deeply commit to someonetake a stand on something that's importantfollow a path that takes dedication and focus
we have to discover that the truest freedom sometimes comes in the form of choosing, deliberately, to be bound by enabling constraints.