“Not to do what you feel like doing is freedom”

“Doing what you like every day will make you feel very satisfied. And the only way to do what you like well will be to love what you do.”

“(…) Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.”

“Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”

“We have defined freedom in the West as the freedom to choose between options and preferences. That’s not primal freedom. That’s a secondary or even tertiary freedom. The primal freedom is the freedom to be the self, the freedom to live in the truth despite all circumstances. That’s what great religion offers us. That’s what real prayer offers us. That’s why the saints could be imprisoned and not lose their souls. They could be put down and persecuted like Jesus and still not lose their joy, their heart, or their perspective. Secular freedom is having to do what you want to do. Religious freedom is wanting to do what you have to do.”

“It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.”

“Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.”

“The spirit of what we do is that you do what you feel and when you feel it and not feel you have to be something you're not: you have to be honest to yourself.”

“… but it doesn't feel crazy to us.
It feels like what we do.”

“Freedom does not mean doing what you can get away with, doing what you please. It means, instead, having the opportunity to do what you ought to do--for family and for community and for humanity as a whole.”