Most people have liberty.
They can go where they want and do the things they feel like doing.
But too many people are also slaves to their impulses. They have grown reactive rather than proactive, meaning that they are like seafoam pounding against a rocky shore, going in whatever direction the tide might take them.
I say that such people have liberty but lack freedom. They lack a key ingredient to a meaningful, enlightened life : the freedom to see the forest beyond the trees, the freedom to choose what is right over what seems pressing.
Live with discipline.
Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage.
The more you nurture the embryo of self-discipline, the more it will mature.
Will power is the essential virtue of a fully actualized life.
They can go where they want and do the things they feel like doing.
But too many people are also slaves to their impulses. They have grown reactive rather than proactive, meaning that they are like seafoam pounding against a rocky shore, going in whatever direction the tide might take them.
I say that such people have liberty but lack freedom. They lack a key ingredient to a meaningful, enlightened life : the freedom to see the forest beyond the trees, the freedom to choose what is right over what seems pressing.
Live with discipline.
Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage.
The more you nurture the embryo of self-discipline, the more it will mature.
Will power is the essential virtue of a fully actualized life.
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