Let my love surround you like sunshine and give you radiant freedom. ——Tagore

I hope that what I love can grow and develop according to my own wishes and in my own way, rather than serving my purpose. ——Fromm

An orator said, please tell us about freedom. ?

He replied: ?

By the city gate, by the fire, I have seen you prostrate yourself, worshiping your freedom,?

Like slaves who bow before a tyrant, even though they suffer much from him. ?

Alas, in the jungle of the temple, in the shadow of the castle, ? I have seen the freest of you wearing his freedom as in chains. ?

My heart bleeds in my breast; for you are free only when you feel that the desire to be free is also a bondage, and when you no longer call freedom a goal and an achievement. of. ? When your days are not carefree, ? Your nights are not without hope and sorrow, ? You are free, ?

But when these things tie your life, ? and you transcend them , naked and unrestrained,? You are even more free. ?

You have locked your noon at the dawn of your knowledge. If you do not break this chain, how can you transcend your day and night? ? In fact, what you call freedom is the strongest chain, ? although its links shine in the sun and confuse your eyes. ?

Isn’t it a part of yourself that you want to throw away in exchange for freedom? ?

If that is a law that you want to repeal, ? it is the law written by your hands on your foreheads. ?

You cannot wipe it away, even if you burn the Torah or pour out the waters of the sea to wash away the judges’ brows. ?

If that is a tyrant you want to depose, first see if the throne he has erected in your hearts has been destroyed. ?

Because if there is no tyranny in your freedom, and no shame in your dignity, how can a tyrant rule over free and dignified people? ?

If that is the anxiety you want to get rid of, it is not imposed on you, it is your choice. ? If that is the fear you want to dispel, ? the fear is rooted in your heart, ? not in the hands of the object of fear. ?

Indeed, expectations and fears, disgust and cherishment, pursuit and escape, all of these are always embracing and running in your body, just like light and shadow are closely dependent on each other. ?

When the shadow fades, the remaining light becomes the shadow of another light. ? Therefore, when your freedom is freed from its shackles, ? it will itself become a shackle for greater freedom.

——Kahlil Gibran

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