自由是抽象的（自由等于能力减去欲望）

自由等于能力减去欲望

Freedom = Ability - Desire

更高级的自由之道不在加法，而在减法。

The advanced way of freedom is by subtracting instead of adding

如果你仅仅提高了自己的能力，却管理不了自己的欲望，你不会是个自由的人。

If you only improve your abilities, but you can't manage your desires, you won't be a free man.

信用卡提高了你的消费能力，却可能让你远离财务自由；社交网络提高了你的信息收集能力，却可能让你远离心灵自由；搜索引擎提高了你的信息收集速度，却可能让你远离思想自由。

Credit cards improve your spending power, but they may keep you away from financial freedom; social networks improve your ability to collect information, but they may keep you away from spiritual freedom; search engines speed up your information collection, but they may keep you away from intellectual freedom.

今天，高薪不快乐，高分学生不幸福，高官不安心，因为他们都在用太多的精力饲养他们的欲望。中医说，在求不得和想得到之间，全是火气。

Today, the staff with high salary are not happy, the high score students are not happy, the senior officials are not happy, because they are costing too much energy to feed their desires. Traditional Chinese doctor says that on the way to feed the desire, it's all fire.

一个人的自由之路无非有两条，一条是给能力做加法，一条是给欲望做减法。提高能力让你能承担更多责任从而获得更多自由而降低欲望则让你宁静下来，让生命变轻，把自由还给自由。

There are only two ways for a person to be free. One is to level up ability, the other is to control desire. Strengthening your ability allows you to take on more responsibilities and thus gain more freedom. while controlling your desire will calm you down, lighten your life burden and give freedom back to you.

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