Richard Lovelace Quotes

Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.

Freedom resides within the soul.

It is not the mind, but the heart that makes free.

Freedom is internal. Another group cannot give you freedom.

If you find your freedom, if you find something that cannot be taken from you, then you're free. If your freedom depends on what you have, or you position, or your security, or anything that is just passing, because those are just waves of things.

Every practice at some point will become a hindrance. No practice can ever take you there, to freedom, to liberation. That's important to realize.

To become truly free, you must surrender.

In my soul, I am free.

Feeling free inside oneself is being free.

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

You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.

Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take.

Although I cannot move, and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind, I am free.

It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.

I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.

It is through realizing loving presence as our very essence, through being that presence, that we discover true freedom.

We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes.

The man of control lives in choice, and the man of understanding lives in choicelessness.