Quotes About Freedom

His efforts has made load of my karma been removed, and I am now free of karma.

Look here and know who you are. Instantly you will find freedom, and this suffering--hitchhiking from womb to womb--will instantly stop. The only way is to look within.

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.

Happiness is never your own; it is where the 'I' is not. It is beyond your reach; you have only to reach out beyond yourself and you will find it.

If you have contact with pure consciousness even for a moment, you are liberated.

Unless a man live the ordinary life and check every incident as the projection of the Self, not swerving from the Self in any circumstances, he cannot be said to be free from the handicap of ignorance

You may have a vast scholarship, fame or fortune. But, the bee can give you a lesson on how to be free from torment

Activity and rest are two vital aspects of life. To find a balance in them is a skill in itself. Wisdom is knowing when to have rest, when to have activity, and how much of each to have. Finding them in each other - activity in rest and rest in activity - is the ultimate freedom.

Life is nothing to be very serious about. Life is a ball in your hands to play with. Don't hold on to the ball.

Knowledge is a burden if it robs you of innocence. Knowledge is a burden if it is not integrated into life. Knowledge is a burden if it doesn't bring joy. Knowledge is a burden if it gives you an idea that you are wise. Knowledge is a burden if it doesn't set you free. Knowledge is a burden if it makes you feel you are special.

Someone who does not have any responsibility can feel very detached, 'Oh, I am doing nothing. I am free.' But that freedom has no value. If someone who is responsible for the whole of society, the whole kingdom can say, 'I am not doing anything' in spite of this responsible job; then that 'not doing' something is great. That is enlightenment.

To someone who is sleeping, it doesn't matter whether he's in a prison or in a palace. One who is asleep doesn't even feel the bondage.

Reivindicar la libre discusión nos sitúa de entrada en el terreno de la democracia. El objetivo de la dictadura no es refutar la opinión contraria sino suprimir violentamente su expresión.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God.

Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion.

And the good delight to hear of the past evils of such as are now freed from them, not because they are evils, but because they have been and are not.

Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.

No longer, then, follow after false and deceitful gods; abjure them rather, and despise them, bursting forth into true liberty. Gods they are not, but malignant spirits, to whom your eternal happiness will be a sore punishment.

A free curiosity has more force in our learning these things, than a frightful enforcement.

Therefore we are by no means compelled, either, retaining the prescience of God, to take away the freedom of the will, or, retaining the freedom of the will, to deny that He is prescient of future things, which is impious. But we embrace both. We faithfully and sincerely confess both. The former, that we may believe well; the latter, that we may live well.

Therefore the good man, although he is a slave, is free; but the bad man, even if he reigns, is a slave.

We were those girls, the artist's daughters, the mermaids, the ones with long, tangled hair who did what they wanted. Inside, always, we knew we were free." - Stacey D'Erasmo

Exhale the remnants/Of wounds that steal your freedom./No more prisons. Breathe.