Freedom

Quotes on freedom.

Your perception is truly your own reality. You see what you want to see and experience what you want to experience. It all comes back to the transforming power of choice, which can enslave or liberate you.
- Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy
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For more, read The Power of… the Universe

In Indian thought, everything is permeated by the Supreme Universal Spirit (Paramatma or God) of which the individual human spirit (jivatma) is a part. The system of yoga is so called because it teaches the means by which the jivatma can be united to, or be in communion with the Paramatma, and so secure liberation (moksa).
-B.K.S. Iyengar, in Light on Yoga

The Yoga Sutras teach us that the entire world is our own projection, and that things outside neither bind nor liberate us; only our attitudes toward them does that.
- Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy
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For more, read The Power of… PERSPECTIVE.

Free yourself of expectations and attachments, and open up to life.
- Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy
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For more, read The Power of… ZERO

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
- Dalai Lama

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
– Woodrow Wilson (28th U.S. President)

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
- Swami Vivekananda