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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"Freedom begins when you stop needing approval."
Mooji
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"Freedom comes not from the absence of chains, but from the understanding of your true nature."
Ammachi (Mata Amritanandamayi)
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"Your true nature is beyond all concepts and beliefs."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Liberation is the recognition that you were never bound."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"When you understand that nothing is permanent, you become free."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Your freedom is limited only by your belief in limitation."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of causes and concerns, to surrender oneself to too many projects is to fall into servitude."
Thomas Merton
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"Conscience is the sanctuary of liberty."
Thomas Merton
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"True freedom consists in the ability to choose what is truly good."
Thomas Merton
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"A man who has renounced the desire for esteem is truly free."
Thomas Merton
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"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that prisoner was you."
Meher Baba
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"The mind is a prison; love is the key."
Meher Baba
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"To seek truth is to seek freedom."
Meher Baba
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"The mind can imprison or the mind can liberate."
Meher Baba
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"The Self is eternally free and eternally realized."
Anandamayi Ma
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"The mind creates prisons; love dissolves them."
Anandamayi Ma
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"To let go is to hold on to freedom."
Anandamayi Ma
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"The greatest freedom is freedom from yourself."
Anandamayi Ma
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"True freedom is freedom from the mind's slavery."
Satya Sai Baba
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"The moment I have realized the worth of my life, I have chosen to live it fearlessly."
Sri Sarada Devi
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"The moment I have realized the worth of my life, I have chosen to live fearlessly."
Sri Sarada Devi
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"When you realize that nothing belongs to you, everything comes to you."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Desire is the root of all suffering. Freedom comes through understanding desire."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul."
Dayananda Saraswati
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"Freedom is your birthright."
Dayananda Saraswati
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"The mind is the greatest prison that man has ever created."
Meher Baba
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"To be authentic is to be free."
Meher Baba
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"The freedom to choose is the freedom to become."
Meher Baba
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"The mind that judges others is itself trapped in bondage."
Ammachi (Mata Amritanandamayi)
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"True freedom is liberation from the tyranny of the mind's endless desires."
Ammachi (Mata Amritanandamayi)