Friday, March 29, 2024
American University
A project of the Rev. James B. Simpson Fellowship at American University’s School of Communication

To have a fulfilling life you have to make promises,you have to surrender some freedom of choice to taste a higher freedom, the freedom that comes after you’ve settled on a direction, chained yourself to a cause, an enlarged your capacities. It is precisely our restraints that liberate us for that higher freedom.

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To have a fulfilling life you have to make promises,you have to surrender some freedom of choice to taste a higher freedom, the freedom that comes after you’ve settled on a direction, chained yourself to a cause, an enlarged your capacities. It is precisely our restraints that liberate us for that higher freedom.
— David Brooks