At our own cost, we validate fear

"We want to be "liberated" from our drivenness and the prison we have either consciously or unconsciously created as our 'window of perception' on the world."

In terms of emotional conditioning, the want to be "liberated" from our "driveness" fits perfectly well with the work I have been doing to further my understanding on the human condition. In fact, I have discovered there are many of this world, at least my world, who have created for themselves self-imposed incarcerations; as you wrote, "prisons" to their emotional distress and despair out of their discrepancy between want and need for liberation.

Indeed self-awareness is key to perceptually transcending a self-defeated outlook. Of course "relief" like "liberation" is a relative word which is often directly related to one's perspectives of control over one's drives. For many, helpless and hopeless to their own creation, they wallow in the abyss of emotional emptiness. Void of functionality they flat-line in ambition, passion, and enthusiasm, and as the rest of the world stands and watches. They emotionally isolate and reach out to what they think brings relief; never once embracing the potential to their emotional intelligence.