Explore · 30 sayings
Freedom & Liberation
“Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.”
“Liberty is the first condition of growth.”
“There cannot be any growth without liberty.”
“Be free; hope for nothing from anyone.”
“So long as enjoyment is sought, bondage remains.”
“We seek neither misery nor happiness, but freedom.”
“Not one atom can rest until it finds its freedom.”
“We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.”
“We make our own environment, and we strike the fetters off.”
“Equality in all beings this is the sign of the free.”
“Man is really free, the real man cannot but be free.”
“Freedom is of the nature of the soul, it is its birthright.”
“This is the goal of the Vedantin, to attain freedom while living.”
“Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.”
“As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.”
“Freedom is the only condition of growth; take that off, the result is degeneration.”
“The solution of the Vedanta is that we are not bound, we are free already.”
“All our struggle is for freedom. We seek neither misery nor happiness, but freedom, freedom alone.”
“God is the only one who is free. God and freedom are one and the same.”
“Man as Atman is really free; as man he is bound, changed by every physical condition.”
“Until we can free ourselves from nature, we are slaves; as she dictates so we must go.”
“If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation.”
“Until you know that you are that very God of gods, there will never be any freedom for you.”
“The real happiness is God. Love is God, freedom is God; and everything that is bondage is not God.”
“Every act of selfishness or thought of selfishness makes us attached to something, and immediately we are made slaves.”
“I am the Soul, the ever free; [I] never was bound. Time is in me, not I in time.”
“When we know that we are one with God, that we and He are friends, then come equality and freedom.”
“To be more free is the goal of all our efforts, for only in perfect freedom can there be perfection.”
“Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.”
“Freedom is the one goal of all nature, sentient or insentient; and consciously or unconsciously, everything is struggling towards that goal.”