Freedom has a purpose beyond itself. We need freedom for friendship, love, understanding, transformation. But we have to start with freedom. Beginning with external freedom and working our way inward.

Adopt a spiritual regimen
“Unfree men are horrified by the suggestion of accepting a spiritual regimen. Associating inner control with external tyranny, they would rather suffer than be subject to spiritual authority. Only free men, ready to abandon caprice, do not equate self-restraint with self-surrender.” Abraham Heschel, The Earth is the Lord's, 63

Obey laws except when they are inconsistent with truth
“I will obey all the laws of my country faithfully; and the orders of its monarch, and of all persons appointed to be in authority under its monarch, so far as such laws or commands are consistent with what I suppose to be the law of God; and when they are not, or seem in anywise to need change, I will oppose them loyally and deliberatively, not with malicious, concealed, or disorderly violence.” The Genius of John Ruskin, 415