A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas rather than characters in them.
The most terrifying thing for most everybody in the whole Western World is to take responsibility for your own life and to experience real freedom.
Having everything is just an expression of complete inner freedom.
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Only you know who you were born to be and you need to be free to be that person.
A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it
Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.
We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.
A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.
There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say we have a natural urge to be loved and appreciated, to belong. That’s false. Drop this illusion and you will find happiness. We have a natural urge to be free, a natural urge to love, but not to be loved.
I now stop feeling guilty. I let myself out of that prison.
You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.
The Kingdom of Heaven is within us. God is within us. He is the Soul of our souls. See Him in your own soul. That is practical religion. That is freedom.
Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.
Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.
In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while relinquishing things that do not matter to us. A lukewarm yearning for awakening is not enough to sustain us through the difficulties involved in letting go. It is important to understand that anything that can be lost was never truly ours, anything that we deeply cling to only imprisons us.
Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. A Brave and Startling Truth.
To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere." "To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
Discovering a richer quality of being-ness means to keep surrendering and letting go of resistance.
I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.
True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom.
Our thoughts are free.
