FREEDOM
Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom
- Victor Frankl, from Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning
True freedom comes when every speck of the known collapses into the unknown, not just for a moment but continually.
- Adyashanti, from Emptiness Dancing
Live as the flowers live, opening your heart to the sunlight of God's love.
- White Eagle, quoted in The Quiet Mind
[that future] when through these states walk a hundred million of superb persons [that is, persons filled with Christ realization] I see, dance, laugh, sing. Wandering, amazed at my own lightness and glee, O, the joy of my spirit - it is uncaged...it darts like lightning...Joy, joy in freedom, worship, love! Joy in the ecstasy of life!
- Walt Whitman, from The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
And he who beholds all beings in the Self and the Self in all beings, he never turns away from it. When to a man who understands, the Self has become all things, what sorrow, what trouble can there be to him who once beheld that unity?
- Khandogya Upanishad
Whatever you have in your mind - forget it; whatever you have in your hand - give it; whatever is to be your fate - face it!
- Abu Sa'id Ibn Abi-L-Khayr, quoted in Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters