“There are many types of freedom: physical freedom, mental or emotional freedom, spiritual freedom, and political freedom. Physical freedom is the freedom to move from place to place: literal freedom. Mental or emotional freedom is having peace of mind and being able to be free from scary thoughts or nightmares. Political freedom is being freeContinue reading “There are Many Types of Freedom”
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Emotional Freedom
“What is emotional freedom? It means increasing your ability to love by cultivating positive emotions and being able to compassionately witness and transform negative ones, whether they’re yours or another’s.” ― Judith Orloff, Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life
The Worldly Life Looks Attractive, but…
“In appearance, the worldly life looks attractive, but once you enter into it, you can never become free.” ― Dada Bhagwan
No Man Has the Right to Dictate…
“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.” ― Ansel Adams
To Have Faith…
“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.” ― Alan W. Watts
A Part of the Whole
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personalContinue reading “A Part of the Whole”
Letting go…
“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
Our Ultimate Freedom
“Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. — Stephen Covey
If Everyone is Thinking Alike…
“If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.” Benjamin Franklin
The Peace of Wild Things
“The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heronContinue reading “The Peace of Wild Things”
