Where Does Freedom Lie?

Where does freedom lie?

That question has no single answer—only the reflection of the one who asks.

To me, freedom is not a place but a state of mind. If I were a prisoner, I might believe it waited for me beyond the prison gates. Yet even outside those gates, if I were living outside of my true self, I would feel the same weight—an invisible confinement of the soul.

Freedom and captivity are not always measured by walls or fences; sometimes they live within the same heart. What we experience becomes the truth through which we see the world.

So when I ask again—where does freedom lie?—I would say it rests quietly behind truth.

For even within a cell, if I were there as a consequence of truth, I could still taste peace.

But to live in deceit, even beneath the open sky, would be to dwell in a prison of my own making.

Freedom is not found in circumstance but in alignment—when thought, word, and action flow in harmony with who we are at our core.

Each choice becomes a brick in the world we build around us, shaping the landscape of our inner life.

And so the question remains—

In the world you’ve built… have you created freedom, or simply the illusion of it?