… freedom isn’t secured by filling up on your heart’s desire but by removing your desire.
—Epictetus, Discourses, 4.1.175
There are two ways to be wealthy—to get everything you want or to want everything you have. Which is easier right here and right now? The same goes for freedom. If you chafe and fight and struggle for more, you will never be free. If you could find and focus on the pockets of freedom you already have? Well, then you’d be free right here, right now.
* Source: The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman