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A database of 11,000+ illuminated guiding quotations in 40 categories from 600+ inspired books by our most brilliant and influential authors.
Compiled by JoAnn Kite
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"Free? Understand that well, it is the deep commandment, dimmer or clearer, of our whole being, to be free." Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish historian The Great Thoughts (George Seldes, compiler) |
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"When you come to recognize that boundaries are illusions, and good and bad incline toward each other, and black and white are variations of light, the dualities dissolve and freedom reigns." Miraculous Living (Rabbi Shoni Labowitz) |
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"The human being extricates himself from unfree actions by evolving increasingly toward his true self." Reincarnation and Immortality (Rudolf Steiner) |
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"That our will is free is self-evident." Rene Descartes, 'Principles of Philosophy' (17th century) The Book of Catholic Quotations (John Chapin, Editor) |
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"The essence of love is freedom. Anyone who says they love you, and that they are looking out for you, will grant you freedom. It is as simple as that." Communion with God (Neale Donald Walsch) |
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"It is only in love that freedom is perfect." Covenant of the Heart, Meditations of a Christian Hermeticist on the Mysteries of Tradition (Valentin Tomberg) |
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"Human freedom consists in knowing the unity of atman (the Self) and the cosmic order." The Unity of Reality (Michael vonBruck) |
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"Today, the first essential of brotherhood is freedom. Freedom to think, freedom to believe, freedom to strive, freedom to develop." The Unobstructed Universe (Stewart Edward White) |
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"By no other way than through cognitive free will could humans come to inner freedom and true individuality." The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality (Richard Leviton) |
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"Man remains forever free at the centre." The Ancient Wisdom (Annie Besant) |
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"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) |
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"Sooner or later each being will look up and realize he is already free – and free without the help of an organization or group, but by and for the 'self' as a part of All There Is." Spirit Guides (Iris Belhayes) |
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"The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men." John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), Address at the University of California, Berkeley, March 23, 1962 Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition (John Bartlett) |
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"You cannot enchain the human soul. It will break free." Wind of the Spirit (G. dePurucker) |
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"Nature implants in man as well as in every beast a passionate, inherent, and instinctive desire for freedom and self-guidance." The Secret Doctrine (Helena P. Blavatsky) |
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"The renewed interest in shamanism today can be viewed as democratization, returning to the original spiritual democracy of our ancestors in ancient tribal societies where almost everyone had some access to spiritual experience and direct revelation." Michael Harner, interview with Gary Doore Shamanism: An Expanded View of Reality (Shirley Nicholson, Compiler) |
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"In fact, freedom of action is a primary human need." Adventures of Ideas (Alfred North Whitehead) |
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"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.) |
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"According to the mystics, the closer you get to your true self, the greater the sense of infinite freedom." Ken Wilber, Foreword Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul (Caroline Myss) |
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"Our freedom is so much greater than we have comprehended. We can learn to shift from reality to reality, choosing the one that is most relevant to our needs and purposes at the moment and use our new approach…to nourish our being, love, cherish, and garden ourselves and each other, be at home in our universes, and help save ourselves and the planet." Dr. Lawrence LeShan, 'Alternate Realities' Shamanism: An Expanded View of Reality (Shirley Nicholson, Compiler) |
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"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) |
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"In the prison One shall come; and the chains which are stronger than iron, the fetters harder than steel, shall dissolve – you shall go free forever." Edward Carpenter, 'Towards Democracy' Cosmic Consciousness (Richard M Bucke) |
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"The union with God in the inner depths is experienced as a liberation." Spiritual Pilgrims, Carl Jung & Teresa of Avila (John Welch, O. Carm.) |
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"We were created with free will and willing freedom, a creature noble in God's eyes….we are raised up to glory, a perfect creature in the Spirit." Bernard of Clarivaux, 'Divine Grace and Free Choice' Bernard of Clairvaux, Essential Writings (Dennis E. Tamburello, O.F.M.) |
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"For Clement of Alexandria, moral freedom is our glory; that we are made in the image of God really means that we have what he calls 'autexousia', a term often trnslated as 'free will', but, more accurately, 'the power to constitute one's own being'." Adam, Eve, and the Serpent (Elaine Pagels) |
This body of quotes compiled by
JoAnn Kite