Quotes About Freedom

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.

In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.

Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?

The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.

Life begins where fear ends.

In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.

If you live your life burning for the highest possibility, in that burning itself, there is liberation.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.

Dance until you shatter yourself.

People need each other and think it is love. There's no hanging on to, or fencing in, of the other one when one loves.

When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.

Karma is your survival and your bondage. And if you handle it right, it can also be your liberation.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.

Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.

To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness.