Secrets
For every force sweeps outward into space
To live and work; here, there and everywhere;
While on the other hand the teeming world
From every side confines and takes away!
Between the inner strife and outer conflict
The spirit hears a word slow comprehended:
From powers that fetter every living being
That man is free who overcomes himself.
That man is free who overcomes himself.
~Goethe, Secrets