“Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.” MeanSoulDesireHabitEgoLiberationGuidanceBondageCompulsionObeying Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
“There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed.” Would BePleasurePrinciplesDoubtEgoConsciousResistanceLiberationNo DoubtUnconsciousRepressedConscious And Unconscious Book:Beyond the Pleasure Principle Source: Beyond the Pleasure Principle
“We have to free the Muslim mind from the obsession with limits and rules and forgetting the path and objective. This is truly a liberating process, and for me this is Islam: liberation from the ego, and in this case liberating ourselves from the wrong understanding of the religion.” MindProcessUnderstandingForgetCasesPathLimitsEgoIslamObjectivesObsessionLiberationLiberating Author:Tariq Ramadan
“In love at one of its poles you find the personal, and at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion — Here I am; at the other the equally strong denial — I am not. Without this ego what is love? And again, with only this ego how can love be possible? Bondage and liberation are not antagonistic in love. For love is most free and at the same time most bound. If God were absolutely free there would be no creation. The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.” IfsLifeMadeWould BeStrongLove IsMysteryCreationEgoInfiniteBoundsDenialLiberationFiniteBondageAssertionHere I AmWhat Is LoveFinitude Author:Rabindranath Tagore
“In liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists, that there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.” NeedsLooksKindWholeSupportEgoIllusionLonelyNotionLiberationStand Alone Author:Adyashanti
“But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a compromise with being, a concession to the blunder of creation itself. We should be able to do better, and we can. To have our egos killed off is second-best to killing off death and all the squalid byplay that flitters around it. So let all lands be small, and grower smaller and smaller until no lands are left where any human footstep need press itself upon the earth.” IfsNeedsShouldHumansStillsAbleEarthLeftExistenceLandCreationEgoModelsRemainsPressesKillingCompromiseLiberationFootstepsHuman ExistenceBlundersConcessionsSecond BestOptimum Author:Thomas Ligotti
“Any attempt at liberation, no matter how great it might be, if it does not take into consideration the necessity of dissolving the ego, it is condemned to failure.” IfsDoeMatterMightEgoLiberationConsiderationDissolving Author:Samael Aun Weor
“Liberation does not concern the person, for liberation is freedom from the person. Basically the disciple and teacher are identical. Both are the timeless axis of all action and preception. The only difference is that one 'knows' himself for what he is while the other does not. The idea of being a person, an ego, is nothing other than an image held together by memory.” KnowsPersonsDoeIdeasActionTogetherDifferencesMemoriesTeacherAwarenessEgoConcernLiberationDiscipleTimelessIdenticalAxes Book:I Am Source: I Am
“It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation. Its very pressures, pains, and risks can wake us up -release us from the bonds of ego and guide us home to our vast true nature.” WorldPlayHomePainRolesRiskEgoPressureGuidesReleaseLiberationTrue Nature Author:Joanna Macy