Spiritual freedom may be cultivated first by understanding clearly what it is. Worldly freedom is freedom of the ego. On the contrary, it is liberation from the appetites and fears of the conditioned body-mind which fuel such perceptions. The longing for spiritual freedom does not often arise before there has been a loss of confidence in the strength of one's perceptions and ideas of what is reality and where one is going within it. We do not usually question life until it fails us.
Worldly freedom is the power to change one's experience.
Spiritual freedom is the complementary power to change one's relationship to it. So we must be clear about what we want. Either I am rejecting this experience and conniving to get a different one, or I accept to meet this squarely as experience. To accept experience, however, does not necessarily mean to accept the conditions in the world that give rise to it. It is not a formula for passivity.