Quotes About Freedom

You want freedom? Here it is: Drop your false ideas. See through people. If you see through yourself, you will see through everyone. Then you will love them. Otherwise you spend the whole time grappling with your wrong notions of them, with your illusions that are constantly crashing against reality.

Repentance brings an intense desire for God, deep gratitude, and a growth in self-awareness that increases our freedom to love.

There is another way besides laborious self-punishment on the one hand and stagnant acceptance on the other. It is the way of self-understanding. This is far from easy because to understand what you are requires complete freedom from all desire to change what you are into something else.

And you will understand how true it is that everyone who stops clinging to brothers or sisters, father, mother or children, land or houses Ã¢â'¬Â¦ is repaid a hundred times over and gains eternal life.

You will never live until you stop clinging to life. Let go. When you cling, happiness dies. If your happiness depends on anyone or anything, that's not happiness.

You don't have to do anything to acquire happiness. The great Meister Eckhart said very beautifully, "God is not attained by a process of addition to anything in the soul, but by a process of subtraction." You don't do anything to be free, you drop something. Then you're free.

In order to be genuinely happy there is one and only one thing you need to do: get deprogrammed, get rid of those attachments.

For in the death of the ego is freedom, peace, serenity, joy.

An attachment, by its very nature, makes you vulnerable to emotional turmoil and is always threatening to shatter your peace.

Ng??i ta không ??t ??n Thiên Chúa b?ng vi?c b? sung thêm cái gì vào linh h?n, nhÆ°ng là b?ng vi?c bá»›t Ä'i. ?? ???c tá»± do, b?n không c?n làm cái gì c?, b?n ch? c?n b? Ä'i má»™t cái gì Ä'ó thôi. Và b?n ???c tá»± do.

It is from the oppression of your programming that you need to be liberated. Only then will you experience that inner freedom from which alone all social revolution must arise for the powerful emotion, the passion that arises in your heart at the sight of social evils and impels you to action, will have its origin in reality, not in your programming or your ego.

El amor sólo puede existir en libertad. El verdadero amante busca el bien de la persona amada, lo cual requiere especialmente la liberación de ésta respecto de aquél.

If you just enjoy things, refusing to let yourself be attached to them, that is, refusing to hold the false belief that you will not be happy without them, you are spared all the struggle and emotional strain of protecting them and guarding them for yourself.

Now you will realize that this beggar came to your home with an alms for you—the widening of your heart in compassion and the release of your spirit in freedom. Where before you used to be controlled (these persons had the power to create negative emotions in you and you went out of your way to avoid them) now you have the gift of freedom to avoid no one, to go anywhere.

This is how your beliefs originate: they are fixed, unchanging ways of looking at a reality that is not fixed and unchanging at all, but constantly moving and changing. So, it is no longer the real world that you interact with and love, but a world created by your head. It is only when you drop your beliefs, fears, and the attachments that breed them that you will be freed from the insensitivity that makes you so deaf and blind to yourself and the world.

It reminds me of the Irish prisoner who dug a tunnel under the prison wall and managed to escape. He comes out right in the middle of a school playground where little children are playing. Of course, when he emerges from the tunnel he can't restrain himself anymore and begins to jump up and down, crying, "I'm free, I'm free, I'm free! A little girl there looks at him scornfully and says, "That's nothing. I'm four.

cosa. La sinfonía de la vida prosigue, pero tú no dejas de mirar atrás, de aferrarte a unos cuantos compases de la sinfonía, de cerrar tus oídos al resto de la música, produciendo con ello una disarmonía y un conflicto entre lo que la vida te ofrece y aquello a lo que tú te aferras. Y vienen a continuación la tensión y la ansiedad, que constituyen la muerte misma del amor y de la gozosa libertad que el amor conlleva.

En adelante, podrás ir pasando de un momento a otro de la vida plenamente absorto en el presente, llevando contigo tan poca carga del pasado que tu espíritu podría pasar a través del ojo de una aguja; tan escasamente afectado por la preocupación acerca del futuro como las aves del cielo y los lirios del campo. Ya no estarás apegado a ninguna persona o cosa, porque habrás desarrollado el gusto por la sinfonía de la vida.

Qué he de hacer para amar a mi prójimo?». «Dejar de odiarte a ti mismo». El discípulo meditó larga y seriamente estas palabras y regresó a decirle al Maestro: «Pero si yo me amo demasiado a mí mismo... Si soy un egoísta y un egocéntrico... ¿Cómo puedo librarme de ello?». «Sé cordial contigo mismo, y tu ego quedará satisfecho y te dejará en libertad para amar a tu prójimo».

Primera verdad: estás aferrado a una falsa creencia, a saber, la de que sin una cosa o persona determinada no puedes ser feliz.

Segunda verdad: si te limitas a disfrutar las cosas, negándote a quedar apegado a ellas, es decir, negándote a creer que no podrás ser feliz sin ellas, te ahorrarás toda la lucha y toda la tensión emocional que supone el protegerlas y conservarlas.

I have wandered freely in mystical traditions that are not religious and have been profoundly influenced by them. It is my church, however, that I keep returning, for she is my spiritual home.

This is life, he thinks, this is why we live, to play like this on a day when winter is finally releasing its grip.

Hadn't the actors acted of their own volition?