True Freedom Quotes - Page 6

• True freedom has more to do with following the North Star than going whichever way the wind blows.  Sometimes it seems like freedom is blowing with the winds of the day, but that kind of freedom is really an illusion.  It turns your boat in circles.  Freedom is sailing toward your dreams.

  Mary Pipher

  Dream, Stars, Blow

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.229, Penguin

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• Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it

  Mary Landrieu

  Country, Real, Iraq

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• I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Humdrum, Stage, Curtains

  Suzanne Farrell, Toni Bentley (1990). “Holding on to the air: an autobiography”, Summit Press

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• Compassion is a chameleon: it can wear the face of fear, anger, sadness, joy or even dispassion, depending on what's needed at the time. The compassionate Buddha has a smile in one eye and a tear in the other, and our Buddha mission is to lead people to true freedom, not to hold their hand and tell them that everything is going to be all right. In teaching, compassion means doing whatever needs to be done to get to the next phase.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Teaching, Sadness, Mean

  Gabrielle Roth (2011). “Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement”, p.71, New World Library

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• Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.

  John Muir

  Spiritual, Stars, Long

  John Muir (2015). “My First Summer in the Sierra (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies”, p.22, e-artnow

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• A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Freedom, Men, Solitude

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• I was shown a fledgling learning to fly. It's first efforts were very feeble. But as it used its wings more and more, they became stronger until it found the freedom of flight and was able to soar to great heights and fly great distance without any effort. I heard the words: Faith comes with practice. Live by faith until it becomes rocklike unshakable, and find the true freedom of the spirit.

  Eileen Caddy

  Spiritual, Distance, Practice

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• True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Mean, Buddhism, Ego

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• The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

  Tara Brach

  Imperfection, Anxiety, Taught

  Tara Brach (2012). “Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame”, p.21, Random House

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• We can be unhappy about many things, but jy can still be there... It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy... It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love.

  Henri Nouwen

  Uplifting, Lying, Opportunity

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• Seek and find the freedom of the spirit, for where there is true freedom, there is peace, and where there is peace, there is love,and it is love that unlocks all doors.

  Eileen Caddy

  Spiritual, Peace, Doors

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• America you are beautiful . . . and blessed . . . . The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being, but especially the weakest and most defenseless. If you want equal justice for all and true freedom and lasting peace, then America, defend life.

  Pope John Paul II

  Beautiful, Blessed, Greatness

  Pope John Paul II (2012). “A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World”, p.242, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance to events, that is to say, being at one with what happens. The story of the man whose comment was invariably a laconic "Maybe" illustrates the wisdom of nonjudgment, and the story of the ring points to the fact of impermanence which, when recognized, leads to nonattachment. Nonresistance, nonjudgement, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Men, Facts

  Eckhart Tolle (2009). “A New Earth: Create a Better Life”, p.160, Penguin UK

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