There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.