Quotes About Freedom

We have the same interest in condition and character. We honor the rich, because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we call Fate.

Whence is your power? From my nonconformity. I never listened to your people's law, or to what they call their gospel, and wasted my time.

I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right.

The one thing in the world of value is the active soul,—the soul, free, sovereign, active. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, although in almost all men obstructed, and as yet unborn. The soul active sees absolute truth and utters truth, or creates. In this action it is genius; not the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man.

The essence of this faith is freedom. Its goal is simply to make us good and wise. Its institutions should be as flexible as the needs of humanity in different times and places.

The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see. The more I see, the less I know. The less I know, the more I'm free.

The world is won by those who let it go.

Potent Quotes "Whatever you do, or eat, or give, or offer in adoration, let it be an offering to me; and whatever you suffer, suffer it for me. Thus you shall be free from the bonds of Karma which yield fruits that are evil and good; and with your soul one in renunciation you shall be free and come to me."—Bhagavad Gita

The optimum strategy is to act as if we have free choice and to choose always that which we feel is most in harmony with the way of things.

as soon as you give it all up you can have it all

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everybody should follow any one path. Listen to your own truth.

Gurdjieff used to say, "If you can serve a cup of tea properly, you can do anything." That is, if you are able to perform any act in a true karma-yogic fashion, it's because you're acting from a place where you're free of attachments and not busy being the actor—and being in that place will shape every act you do.

How do I know if a person is my guru? a devotee asked Maharajji. Do you feel he can free you from all desires, attachments, and so forth? DO you feel he can lead you to final liberation?

As they say in the Sikh religion—Once you realize God knows everything, you're free. I had been through many years of psychoanalysis and still I had managed to keep private places in my head—I wouldn't say they were big, labeled categories, but they were certain attitudes or feelings that were still very private. And suddenly I realized that he knew everything that was going on in my head, all the time, and that he still loved me. Because who we are is behind all that.

When you have started to awaken and see that there are other planes of reality that are equally valid to the one which presently exists, you learn how to live more or less with more and more planes simultaneously, which is what freedom is about. It's not totally standing in one plane, it's not standing anywhere at all.

A lineage that is pure is one that catapults us ultimately out the other end; it isn't designed to make us followers of the lineage. It is designed to take us through itself and free us at the other end.

At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom

Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a reinstatement of creaturely living as intended by God.

An obedient man is free when in prison," Quan said. "A disobedient man is imprisoned when free.

We are [God's] by creation, and again by redemption. He has every right to tell me what to do with my mind and body. I have. I right to do whatever I want with my body.

The forbidden Book says when there's no authority "every man does what is right in his own eyes.