free oneself

"It's possible to free oneself from alcoholism, but it's hard to transition from a life governed by addiction to one led by something other than alcohol," Fosse said in a Norwegian Salvation Army interview in 2021.

Mandarin borrowings from Sanskrit include the words for “convenience” and “free oneself of.”

Such ideologies include individualism, or the distinctly white-American dream that one writes one’s own destiny, and objectivity, the confidence that one can free oneself entirely from bias.

“The idea of Buddhism is to free oneself from the cycle of suffering and then help all sentient beings to be free,” he says.

"One can try to free oneself of the past, but the past doesn't let you do that," he said - both a theme of "The Past" and an observation of his own situation.