Freedom is a state of mind. One major thing we are learning on the spiritual path is how to be free.  Radically free.  You see, our spirit and soul have always been free and will always be free.  It is free of everything in it’s union with God.  It is a part of the infinite creation.  When a soul comes here into a body, it generates a personality, and ego and other elements of form.  All of these things are malleable, for the most part.  What is not malleable has been pre-ordained by your soul before you arrived here. back in the realm of spirit where you are completely free to choose.  But when we go within and awaken to who we really are, which I think is the point of coming here in the first place, we find the beauty of this freedom again.  We remember a love so vast it is amazing that we have forgotten.  We remember we are free, and most of the societal limitations placed on us are those imposed from the outside..BUT…these do not have to control us and our freedoms.  How many truth seekers break the rules?  Many.  Is this necessary? To a certain extent, yes.  Because if we only listen to the prescriptions of the outside world then we become only what the outside wants us to be…and then we forget again.  Who are we?  What has meaning?  Why am I not fulfilled?  Perhaps it is because you simply forgot, that you are so free!