The issue of Freedom is one which we struggle with -- how much we want, how much we need, how much to give other people. We cannot grow and create unless we are free. Our growth and creativity are proportional to our freedom. We cannot become spiritual unless we are free. Our spirituality can only be realized if we are free to openly accept the Divine within us. We cannot laugh and sing with joy unless we are free. Joy is an emotion inexorably linked to freedom.
Control is at the other end of the rope from Freedom. Control steals the freedom from the controlled -- and the controller as well. Control limits growth. Control limits creativity. Control limits spirituality.
The paradox is that Freedom and Control are neither good nor evil. Freedom and Control are opposites, and opposites must be balanced. Unrestrained freedom is anarchy, unrelenting control is dictatorship. Both extremes are equally destructive to our communal spirit. Yet our humaness seems to set us on course to upset the balance in one direction or the other.
No one is free unless we are all free. No one is controlled unless we are all controlled. In order to be enjoy freedom we must have control. In order to not be suffocated by control we must have freedom.
Or maybe it is as Toni Morrison said so exactly...
. . . the function of freedom is to free somebody else.
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