Most people confuse liberty with licence

 🌸Most people confuse liberty with licence. For the ordinary

mind, to be free is to have the chance of committing every stu-

pidity that one likes, without anybody intervening. I say one

must be “absolutely free”, but it is a very dangerous advice

unless one understands the meaning of the words. Free from

what? — free from attachments, evidently. It is exactly that. It

is the story of the Buddha who answers the young man expert

in all the arts, “I am an expert in the art of self-control. If

men congratulate me or praise me, it leaves me tranquil and

indifferent. If they blame me, that leaves me equally tranquil

and indifferent.”

~The Mother

(CWM 4:90)🌸