Freedom Quotes

The most fought-for idea in human history, explored by those who won it, lost it, and fought to keep it.

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"What you fully accept no longer controls you."
Adyashanti
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"When you stop needing the world to be different, you are free."
Adyashanti
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"Freedom without responsibility is merely the license to harm oneself and others."
Dominic de Guzmán
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of such a world is a complete negation of you."
Thomas Merton
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"A human being is not a thing or a substance to be defined by way of predicates or what it is that he is. Rather, a human being is free to be whatever he intends to be."
Thomas Merton
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"True freedom is not the ability to do whatever we want, but the ability to become who we are meant to be."
Thomas Merton
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"True freedom requires discipline and patience."
Thomas Merton
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"Your duty is to be, not to do."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Freedom is your natural state; bondage is only a concept."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Surrender is the gateway to freedom."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Attachment to beliefs binds you; releasing beliefs frees you."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"To be free, stop identifying with what you are not."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Your freedom lies in accepting what is."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"What you are is free from all limitations."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Freedom is not the ability to do what you want; it is freedom from wanting."
Rupert Spira
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"When you stop chasing, everything comes to you"
Mooji
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"The moment you stop trying is when you begin to truly live"
Mooji
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"What you defend, you keep imprisoned"
Mooji
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"To know yourself is to be free"
Mooji
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"Your circumstances do not determine your consciousness"
Mooji
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"The path of peace is walked with bare feet."
Francis of Assisi
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"Freedom from fear is the truest liberation."
Francis of Assisi
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"The mind is a prison; love is the key to freedom."
Meher Baba
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"Freedom is the ability to act in accordance with your true nature."
Meher Baba
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"Truth sets you free from bondage."
Meher Baba
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"The path to freedom is through truth"
Satya Sai Baba
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"True freedom is the absence of the sense that you need to become someone else."
Adyashanti
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"Freedom is not the ability to do what you want; it is not needing to do what you don't want."
Adyashanti
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"Freedom is not in doing what you want; it is in not doing what you don't want."
Adyashanti
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"The greatest gift you can give yourself is freedom from your own thoughts."
Mooji