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Silver Lining Of Your Cloud
Life Quotes and Sayings
Freedom
Liberation is our very nature. We are that. The very fact that we wish for
liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. ~Ramana
Maharshi
So how do you set yourself free?
So who has bound you?
~Lao Tzu
Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal
center? As long as you do that you can never recognize your freedom. ~Wei Wu
Wei
No man is free until he is free at the center. When he lets go there, he is free
indeed. ~E. Stanley Jones
We are most free when we are free from ourselves. ~N. Sri Ram
Real freedom is freedom in one’s heart, irrespective of external conditions. ~N.
Sri Ram
The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually
irrelevant. ~Adyashanti
If you want to be free, get to know your real self. It has no form, no appearance,
no root, no basis, no abode, but is lively and buoyant. It responds with versatile
facility, but its function cannot be located. Therefore when you look for it you
become further from it; when you seek it you turn away from it all the more.
~Rinzai
Enlightenment is the direct result of freedom from the illusion of a separate
self. A profound understanding of this ultimate simplicity provides all that is
required for an awakening to enlightenment. ~Gary Crowley
Real freedom is the absence of the self that feels trapped, not the trappings that
the self requires to make it feel free. ~Guy Finley
Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.
~Adyashanti
When the limited mind enters blessed companionship with limitless Mind,
indescribable freedom dawns. ~Tilopa
If you surrender to the truth that no phenomenon can ever touch, you are free.
~Gangaji
Truth is freedom. Truth requires no belief, no effort. It is what is. Of course
words cannot express this. But truth is freedom. ~Tom Thompson
Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. ~John 8:32
No one and nothing can free you but your own understanding. ~Ajahn Chah
The freedom you look for is where you look from. ~Jac O’Keeffe
A person does not have to be behind bars to be a prisoner. People can be
prisoners of their own concepts and ideas. They can be slaves to their own
selves. ~Maharaji
The power to think which had hitherto been a matter of ordinary pride, now
becomes a thing from which to escape, for I perceive with startling clarity that I
had become its unconscious captive. ~Paul Brunton
The shell must be broken before the bird can fly. ~Lord Alfred Tennyson
Hint: the cage is not locked. ~Nova Knutson
The prison that you imagine constrains you doesn’t really exist. ~Stephan
Bodian
I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in you. ~Rumi
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. ~Antoine de
Saint-Exupery
As long as the mind is holding on to a structure, a method, a system, there is no
freedom. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live
in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. ~Henry Emerson
Fosdick
To be free inwardly there has to be a non-attachment that spells non-
dependence psychologically on anyone or anything. ~N. Sri Ram
The individual never achieves true freedom until he is no longer pushed or
pulled by any inner compulsion. ~Meher Baba
Freedom is a condition in which there is not the compulsion of attractions and
repulsions, but only action according to the innate law of one’s being. ~N. Sri
Ram
When you see that God acts through you at every moment, you attain true
freedom. ~The Upanishads
Spiritual freedom is freedom from all wanting. . . When the soul breaks asunder
the shackles of wanting, it is emancipated from bondage to body, mind, and
ego. This freedom brings realization of the unity of all life and puts an end to
all doubts and worries. ~Meher Baba
Desires are just waves in the mind. A desire is just a thing among many. I feel
no urge to satisfy it, no action needs be taken on it. Freedom from desire means
this: the compulsion to satisfy is absent. ~Sri Nisargadatta
Liberation cannot be desired because desire is bondage. When you are
desireless, you are liberated. ~Osho
Non-attachment is like a fire that can burn the binding power of past samskaras.
Non-attachment does not mean indifference or non-loving. Non-attachment and
love are one and the same. Non-attachment gives freedom, but attachment
brings bondage. ~Swami Rama
Detach from whatever you find
inside or outside yourself
and only then will you attain liberation.
~Lin-Chi
Keep your heart clear and transparent and you will never be bound. ~Ryokan
Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with
nothing, life itself reveals again and again the opposite: that letting go is the
path to real freedom. ~Sogyal Rinpoche
True Freedom is the loss of everything. ~Jeff Foster
Freedom lies at the heart of my willingness to lose everything. ~Alanis
Morissette
Human effort consists in creating bondage for oneself, clinging fast to it, and
wanting to become free without giving up bondage itself. ~Atmananda Krishna
Menon
You are free once you understand that your bondage is of your own making and
you cease forging the chains that bind you. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself
freedom. ~Chogyam Trungpa
What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right
down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including
anything that may be happening with you at this moment? If you were able to
give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a
spiritually free being. ~Adyashanti
Freedom is instantaneous the moment we accept things are they are. ~Karen
Maezen Miller
Non-resistance, non-judgment, and non-attachment are the three aspects of true
freedom and enlightened living. ~Eckhart Tolle
See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you
will suddenly find that you are free. ~Deepak Chopra
To live in the known is bondage. To live in the unknown is liberation.
~Nisargadatta Maharaj
True freedom comes when every speck of the known collapses into the
unknown, not for a moment but continually. ~Adyashanti
Your mind can be possessed by illusions, but spirit is eternally free. ~A Course
in Miracles
Sometimes what hurt us actually free us. ~Yasmin Mogahed
Each moment is the moment that needs to be happening. Each experience we
have is the divine invitation. It may be a beautifully engraved invitation, or it
may be a very fierce invitation, but each moment is the invitation. I couldn’t
possibly emphasize this more: the texture and flow of our lives, from moment
to moment, is itself what reveals freedom. Life itself shows us what we need to
see through in order to be free. ~Adyashanti
Expose yourself to your deepest fear, and after that, fear has no power, and the
fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. ~Jim Morrison
The spiritual process is not about moving away from life. It is to use everything
in life not to entangle yourself but to liberate yourself. ~Jaggi Vasudev
Peace is the natural by-product of love, which is the natural by-product of
freedom. ~Jana Pierce van Loon
As we become more aware of our spiritual heart we realize no delight equals
the delight of freedom. ~Tony Samara
Only in the state of love will the beautiful, fragrant flower of freedom and
supreme bliss unfold its petals and bloom. ~Amma
Let everyone be as they are. ~Adyashanti
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you
without diminishing your degrees of freedom? ~Buckminster Fuller
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. ~Rabindranath Tagore
Love is a bird and it loves to be free. It needs the whole sky to grow. ~Osho
Until you’ve given the world its freedom, you’ll never have your freedom.
~Adyashanti
If your mind is liberated, your heart floods with compassion. ~Thich Nhat Nanh
In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the
imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart.
~Thomas Merton
Take someone who doesn’t keep score,
who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even
in his own personality: He’s free.
~Rumi
Once you understand reality; although illusory perceptions of the world may
arise in your mind, you will be like the sky; when a rainbow appears in front of
it, it’s not particularly flattered, and when the clouds appear, it’s not particularly
disappointed either. There is a deep sense of contentment. ~Dilgo Khyentse
Rinpoche
Freedom is the total absence of concern about yourself. ~Florinda Donner
An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man
expresses freedom through being ordinary. ~Adyashanti