If you look closely enough, you will see that we live in a way that makes very little actually possible. You only have to have your eyes open for a very short time to be able to see this for yourself. We create prisons and then we live in them.
Look deeply into the nature of your own experience. Look at the way you’re living your own life. Look at the way other people are living their own lives. It won’t be difficult to see the degree of compromise that so many of us are willing to tolerate in the way we live. If we want to be free, then we have to come to the end of a fundamentally divided relationship to life. The kind of compromise that most of us seem happy to live with is the expression of the very division that has to come to an end if any radical change is to occur.
But who has the courage? Who would dare to come to the end of compromise? Who is truly willing to no longer live a life of division?
—Andrew Cohen, Freedom Has No History (Full Circle Publishing Ltd)