“(...)best of luck, avoid roasted cabbage, don't eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!”
Source: Eldest
“Freedom was the only thing I had never known, and it was time to walk with abandon, immune from the battalions, answerable only to myself.”
Source: The Lords of Discipline
“Allowing your body to be present and take up space—rather than always existing in fight-or-flight mode—is true freedom. We deserve to harness and cultivate this freedom for ourselves and in community while we await the opportunity to be fully free in the world.”
Source: Black Girls Breathing: Heal from Trauma, Combat Chronic Stress, and Find Your Freedom
“They say atheists are immoral. But I’ve never seen an atheist try to legislate my bedroom, or blow themselves up for glory, or justify genocide with a holy book.”
Source: God Mob: A Gritty Glance at the Travesty of Religion
“In reality, there are probably people out there who don't fully know themselves yet or think that being a man means you have to only like women, which isn't necessary at all... we can like whoever we want. If they treat us well, make us blush, or give us butterflies, we have the freedom to choose who we want to love.”
“They hand you a menu of options,
let you pick the color of your cage,
convince you that choosing between A or B
is autonomy.
But no one tells you —
A and B were designed by the same hand.”
Source: Emotional Roller Coaster: Confessions of a soul reborn from the ashes
“Alas, virtue alone cannot win a war. Our greatest strength is why we are fighting. Not just for power, as he is. No, we are fighting for something much more precious: freedom." P 275”
Source: Atlantis Rising
“Naked and unencumbered, I ran through the woods, a faun unleashed in the spirit of Nijinsky’s solitary ballet, The Afternoon of a Faun. The earth beneath my bare feet, the brush of leaves against my skin, the wind whispering secrets—all conspired to ignite a profound sense of freedom.”
Source: Crossing the Forbidden Highway: The Untold Story of Orgone, Body Therapy, and Suppressed Emotion
“The search för love, joy, silence, truth, freedom or God is really a search for a union with the whole. We are brought up by a society, civilization and religion in such a way that we are given a false identity. We are all deceived by powerful people, who depend on lying and cheating. They have been cheating for centuries to be able to accumulate money and power, and they are afraid of allowing anybody to discover the truth.
The whole business of the politicians, the priests, the establishment, the status quo, the vested interests, the education system, the media and the rich depend on people who are gullible and ready to be deceived. From the very childhood these people creates such situations that the child becomes aware that if he wants to survive in the world he has to compromise his truth. If the child says the truth he will be getting into trouble.
By the time he is strong enough to be truthful hehas lost all sense of truth. The lies have gone so deep in him that they have become unconscious, so that it has become almost impossible to get rid of them. That is the whole process of a man searching for truth: to undo what the society has done to him.
You have to be reborn, and you will have to become aware that the ego is a false identity imposed on you. You are not separate at all from the whole. You are part of the organic whole. And to know it brings great joy, because when you are not a separate entity, then how can anxiety and anguish exist? Then life becomes a joy. Then there is freedom without any fear.”
Source: The Way of the Heart
“The chains are gone, but freedom remains an illusion. The masters have only changed uniforms.”