What is Freedom

Free Will is the ability of someone to make decisions without restraint. Restraint exists in many forms, physical, mental, legal, economical, etc. Free Will means the Will is Free. All will is free however.  But what is Will? Will is a voluntary act made with full intentions. Aristotle said that virtue and vice are self-defined, and Self-Mastery is the difference between what people decide to do and what they actually do. It is both restraint and discipline. Someone in control of themselves. Someone who is in control of themselves is free, by condition of not being enslaved to desires.
Thomas Aquinas made the following observation on will. The will desires something, but it does not desire all. It is not greater than the intellect, but it does influence the intellect. Can free will exist in the first place? Free actions, argued by Spinoza, cannot actually be free. The concept of freedom is based on internal beliefs caused by external events. There is no objective freedom according to him. We are free by just being alive. We can do whatever we want, unless oppressed physically or mentally. We have boundaries assigned to us by nature.
However, within our limitations, we are free. Things exist because as we decipher through our own bodies. I definitely exist. I must create my reality based upon the one true fact, that I exist. Cogito Ergo Sum. The single greatest phrase ever coined. It is the only thing that can be objectively true. Descartes must have ravaged his brain to come up with that simple phrase. The simple meaning is that doubting one’s existence, in and of itself, proves that an "l" exists to do the thinking. I know I exist. Everything else could be a deception. But if I am being deceived, I must exist in order to be deceived. Physical manifestations can be false. But the simple fact remains that I do exist. I cannot build off of this, but I can use it as a foundation in the case of doubt. When we become conscious of ourselves, we realize that our essential qualities are endless urging, craving, striving, wanting, and desiring. That is will. It is what we desire. We are subject to our will however. Freedom is freedom from the will, a.k.a. freedom from desire, from need. Something not possible in the physical world, but possible in the mental, or dare I say, spiritual world.
What is the intrinsic motivator of the will? The will is motivated by the human desire to place itself in what it perceives is the best possible position. The best possible position is ultimately determined within each of us. I lean more towards a will-to-power psychology, although all major theories are essentially valid. By this logic, freedom from any power/sexuality/physical desires whatsoever leads to true freedom. So all this time, all we had to do was die to be free.