Just as we are beginning to see the power that free resources produce, changes in the architecture of the Internet--both legal and technical--are sapping the Internet of this power. Fueled by bias in favor of control, pushed by those whose financial interest favor control, our social and political institutions are ratifying changes in the Internet that will reestablish control, in turn, reduce innovation on the Internet and in society generally.
Lawrence Lessig
Source: The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World (Vintage), Pages: 13
This is a critical part of enlightenment. The ability to control your words, rather than being controlled by them. They don't have to be controlled all the time, but the enlightened person can control words, subjectively and objectively, at will.
"Total control" of one's own mind is in fact too strong an expression to describe accurately what happens when one is in flow. The point is not that one can always do what one wants, but rather that the possibility of making things happen as one wishes is present in a way that seldom occurs in "real" life.
"Total control" of one's own mind is in fact too strong an expression to describe accurately what happens when one is in flow. The point is not that one can always do what one wants, but rather that the possibility of making things happen as one wishes is present in a way that seldom occurs in "real" life.
True wealth is about taking control of your future and making choices about what you really want in life. Money is only a means to help you get what you want in life, not life itself.