Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

Connect liberty with knowledge and both with morality.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.

Our thoughts are free.

Freedom of the Spirit is the cornerstone of all freedom.

There is no fire like greed, No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger of heart, And no joy like the joy of freedom. Health, contentment and trust Are your greatest possessions, And freedom your greatest joy. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.

Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.

I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.' This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin to see that being alone is a very beautiful thing. Nobody is obstructing our vision. We have complete panoramic vision.

Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.

Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.

To me spirituality needs an honest individuality. It does not allow any kind of dependence. It creates a freedom for itself, whatever the cost. It is never in the crowd but alone, because the crowd has never found any truth. The truth has been found only in people's aloneness.

Let yourselves be led by the Holy Spirit, with freedom and, please, do not cage the Holy Spirit

Meditation is a way of moving into the unlimited dimension of who you are - it is the ultimate freedom.

While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away.

No ideology can help to create a new world or a new mind or a new human being -- because ideological orientation itself is the root cause of all the conflicts and all the miseries. Thought creates boundaries, thought creates divisions and thought creates prejudices; thought itself cannot bridge them. That's why all ideologies fail. Now man must learn to live without ideologies religious, political or otherwise. When the mind is not tethered to any ideology, it is free to move to new understandings. And in that freedom flowers all that is good and all that is beautiful.

Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.

There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.

Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.