Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.
Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.
So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
The other side of every fear is a freedom.
But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where our souls belong....The only solution is to confront them - confront yourself - with the greatest fear imaginable. Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power, and fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.
To free our body from fear what we need is the glorious experience of the soul.
For me it's an issue of are we afraid of ourselves? And we inherit a huge bunch of idealogical baggage, not only Christianity, but Freudianism, and Marxism . . . We inherit all kinds of idealogical baggage designed to make us fear ourselves.
