It is truth that frees, not your effort to be free.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Truth liberates inherently, without needing deliberate effort to attain freedom.
- In plain terms
- Truth sets you free by itself, not your trying to be free.
- What can you take from it?
- Seek truth, not freedom, to be liberated.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Are you trying too hard to be free?
- What truth have you avoided?
Another view
It may discourage necessary active work toward self improvement.
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