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Title: The Cost of Freedom
Source: The Autonomist's Notebook
URL Source: http://theautonomist.com/aaphp/permanent/antbk/antbk.php
Published: Jul 30, 2007
Author: Unknown
Post Date: 2007-07-30 01:37:39 by richard9151
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The Autonomist's Notebook

The Autonomist's Notebook is a semi-satirical collection of aphorisms, epigrams, and comments on politics, philosophy, and religion. While illustrative of automomist thought, they are not meant to be instructive. They are meant primarily for the edification and entertainment of autonomists as pleasant reminders of the clear and essential principles by which we live our lives and which make them worth living.

These are the principles of individual freedom, without which neither human life, in it fullest and noblest sense, nor the fulfillment of its purpose is possible.

The Cost of Freedom

If you want to be free, it will be the most costly and difficult thing you will ever undertake. There are no shortcuts. No other individual or agency, especially not any government, can provide you freedom. You cannot "win" it, you cannot steal or cheat someone else out of it. If in the pursuit of your life what you get comes easy, or by luck, or without great effort, or without a clear complete understanding of how you acquired it, whatever you've gotten, it is not freedom.

You want to know where to begin? It must begin with an agreement with yourself to seek and follow the truth above all other things. Until you hold the truth above all other things, above all feelings, all desires, all allegiances or commitments, you can never be free and are doomed to perpetual servitude to any irrational feeling, whim, or passion to which you are willing to sacrifice your reason and therefore your will. The beginning of freedom is to free yourself from all those emotions, which uncontrolled, are demons which possess and control you, but under your control become your servants, providing you strength, enthusiasm, motivation, pleasure, and joy in every aspect of your life.

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