"You shall be free indeed when your days are not without worries, and your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and loose ...
... And if you want to deprive the despot's throne, be careful before you destroy the throne erected within you, because how can a tyrant rule Umin free and proud, if not because of a despotism in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?
If it is a concern that you want to throw away, this preoccupation has been chosen by you rather than imposed.
And if it is a fear that you will want to dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the dreaded ... "
... And if you want to deprive the despot's throne, be careful before you destroy the throne erected within you, because how can a tyrant rule Umin free and proud, if not because of a despotism in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?
If it is a concern that you want to throw away, this preoccupation has been chosen by you rather than imposed.
And if it is a fear that you will want to dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the dreaded ... "
(from The Prophet, K. Gibran)
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