Cultivating Interior Freedom

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Do you long to be free on the inside? All of us struggle with fears in life that keep us from achieving interior freedom and peace. Today, Dr. Sri encourages us to cultivate an interior freedom that does not depend on external circumstances. He walks us through the three stages of achieving interior freedom and explains why our character plays a big role in our journey to interior freedom.

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"We live in a society that may appear to have many outward freedoms, but we are far from achieving interior freedom."

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life.
0:07.0	Do you long to be free?
0:14.0	Do you long to be free?
0:16.0	Really free on the inside?
0:19.0	I'm talking about a deep freedom, an interior freedom. Do you want to be free from fear, for example?
0:27.2	Maybe you have a lot of fear about suffering, fear about getting sick, fear of the future, fear of a decision you have to make, or fear of failure.
0:36.0	Maybe you have a lot of fear about what other people think of you, how they perceive you.
0:40.0	Do you long to be free from all those fears?
0:44.4	Or maybe you're afraid of really trusting God.
0:47.7	You know there is a God, you know he loves you, you know he cares for you, but you're
0:51.1	afraid of surrendering to him into his will for your life.
0:55.0	You're afraid of giving up control. You're afraid of entrusting your life into the hands of the Father. Do you long to be free from those fears?
1:07.0	Do you long to be free from indecisiveness? Maybe you're an indecisive person.
1:12.0	It's hard for you to make a commitment,
1:13.8	to plant the flag to make a decision,
1:15.7	or maybe you're an impulsive person.
1:18.2	Maybe you're someone that makes a lot of quick decisions
1:20.2	and you don't really think about it,
1:21.3	and you often regret it afterwards. Do you long to be free from lust or pride or selfishness or discouragement that really weighs on your heart?
1:32.0	Maybe you have a lot of pressure in your life, pressure from expectations
1:37.0	other people place upon you, and in the end you're accepting those standards that are coming from others who aren't God.
1:44.7	Do you want to be free from that? Do you want to be free of anxiety? You know, this modern world we live in prides itself on freedom. We talk all about freedom. It's
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