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What Does it Mean to be Free?
24 freedom-aspiring people chime in on this existential topic
Throughout history and even last Thursday, sages, philosophers, pundits, and your next door neighbor have been waxing poetic on what it means to be free. It’s a huge topic with many nuances, twists, turns, and interpretations.
“Freedom from what?,” you may ask.
Well, for starters, freedom from societal conditioning. Freedom from fear. Freedom from concepts. Freedom from anger. Freedom from reactivity. Freedom from the need for approval. Freedom from failure, other people’s opinions, your own past, projections, assumptions, limited beliefs, social media, anti-social media, and even your well-rehearsed strategy for becoming free.
Or, perhaps, freedom is beyond all “whats.”
In other words, YOU get to decide what “being free” really means – what it looks like and how to get there.
Towards that end, what follows are quotes from 24 freedom-aspiring people on this curious topic during the past 2,500 years or so. If anything they say resonates with you, take a moment to reflect on their wisdom and see what you can do to apply it to your own life.
