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1		"As the Catholic Church declares in the strongest terms the simplicity, spirituality, and immortality of the soul, so with constancy she ever asserts its freedom also." Pope Leo XIII, 'Libertas Praestantissimum', June 20, 1888 The Book of Catholic Quotations (John Chapin, Editor)

2		"Free will is always part and parcel of the present life." St. Gregory Palamas, 'To the Most Reverend Nun Xenia' The Philokalia, volume 4 (various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos and St. Makarios)

3		"Freedom is inherent in our very nature." Theological Investigations, Volume VII (Karl Rahner)

4		"In 'Man's Search for Meaning', Victor Frankl tells of his experience in a Nazi concentration camp. He reflects on the irony that he never felt so free as he did during that dreadful period. How could that be true? Even though all obvious freedoms had been taken away from him and he was living in constant threat of sickness, torture, and death, he discovered a depth of freedom inside of himself that he had never before experienced. We are free spirits, and our minds are not bound to anything unless we think we are." Worldwide Laws of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles (John Marks Templeton)

5		"A sense of inner freedom is achieved when the personal will is aligned to the Will of the Collective Source." Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self (Alan Oken)

6		"You are…a world in yourself, a microcosm, who has the image and likeness of God in your very being because you have a mind to know and a will to do. You're free." Theodore M. Hesburgh, priest, author, social activist, 'Making a Difference' A Parliament of Souls, In Search of Global Spirituality (Michael Tobias, Jane Morrison, Bettina Gray, editors)

7		"We cannot retain our freedom if we cut ourselves off from God." My Way of Life, The Summa Simplified for Everyone (Walter Farrell and Martin J. Healy)

8		"The Soul is a way along which God travels to His freedom from His deepest point." Hadewych, 13th century Beguine Mysticism, Its History and Challenge (Bruno Borchert)

9		"The individual possesses the freedom with which to pursue the question: 'Who Am I….Who Really Am I?' This search takes people…to the eternal core of all life in pursuit of the spiritual matrix." Agartha: The Essential Guide to Personal Transformation in the New Era (Meredith L. Young)

10		"The history of the world means the progressive realization of freedom." Dagobert Runes A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1 (Dagobert D. Runes, editor)

11		"Freewill resides in Manas [Mind], being the representative of Mahat, the Universal Mind." The Astral Body (Arthur E. Powell)

12		"Despite the causal nexus man does enjoy a feeling of freedom, which is identical with autonomy of consciousness. However much the ego can be proved to be dependent and preconditioned, it cannot be convinced that it has no freedom." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

13		"Paradoxically, the more one obeys the laws of one's higher nature – the more one identifies with others – the freer and more creative one becomes." Anna Freifeld Lemkow, 'Karmic Process in Science and Society' Karma, Rhythmic Return to Harmony (V. Hanson, R. Stewart & S. Nicholson, editors)

14		"Evolution, by the very mechanism of its syntheses, is constantly acquiring greater freedom." Building the Earth (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

15		"Love is like a fisherman's hook….He who is caught by it is held by the strongest of bonds – yet the being drawn in by it is pleasant….Therefore look only to this hook, for in being caught you will be blessed. The more you are caught the more you are made free." Meister Eckhart Men Who Have Walked With God (Sheldon Cheney)

16		"Religious traditions generally consider that humans do have free will." The Seven Human Powers: Luminous Shadows of the Self (Shirley J. Nicholson)

17		"God created each man as a soul, dowered with individuality, hence essential to the universal structure….His freedom is final and immediate, if he so wills; it depends not on outer but inner victories." Autobiography of a Yogi (Paramahansa Yogananda)

18		"New perceptions of possibility for a sustainable society that envision a compassionate consciousness infusing the world, in which love is the unifying force that makes global reconciliation possible, need to be adopted by those who aspire to freedom." Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions (Frances Vaughan, Ph.D.)

19		"The principle of freedom is a leavening energy which can permeate substance in a unique manner;….This principle of freedom is one of the attributes of Deity (like will, love and mind)." The Rays and The Initiations (Alice A. Bailey)

20		"The qualities of reason, moral conscience, and aesthetic sense make man something more than a mere animal. And he has a still more important gift, freedom, which means he is free to endeavor to actualize these potentialities of reason, rightness, and beauty." The Springs of Creative Living, A Study of Human Nature and God (Rollo May)

21		"Man is free. He is not the helpless slave of biology, or psychology, or sociology." My Way of Life, The Summa Simplified for Everyone (Walter Farrell and Martin J. Healy)

22		"To stand really free is to stand in the clear unimpeded light of the soul, which is basically and intrinsically group consciousness." Glamour, A World Problem (Alice A. Bailey)

23		"What are the characteristics of those who have reached the 'still point'? The 'Theologia Germanica' describes them thus: 'The illumined ones live in freedom….They live in pure surrender and obedience to the eternal Good, in love that frees." Inner Christianity, A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition (Richard Smoley)

24		"We are not constrained by servile necessity, but act with freewill." St. Ambrose, 'Concerning Jacob', (4th century) The Book of Catholic Quotations (John Chapin, Editor)

25		"The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom." Georg Hegel (1770-1831), 'Philosophy of Right' Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition (John Bartlett)