"Watch your mind with great diligence, for there lies your bondage and also the key to freedom

 

"Watch your mind with great diligence, for there lies your bondage and also the key to freedom ['enlightenment']."

~ Nisargadatta

"The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature."

~ Sri Aurobindo

"After enlightenment your work is done. When you are free, freedom takes charge of you. Something else will arise instead of ego, instead of doer. 'I am doing' will no longer be there. Another power called prajna, transcendental function, will take charge of you. ... It will be in charge. Whenever you speak, it is speaking. Whatever you see, it is seeing. Your eyes will be changed. There will be no hatred; these eyes will see God everywhere."

~ H.W.L. Poonja, “Papaji”

"All of us have this opportunity to find true freedom, and no one is exempt, no one is disqualified, because the light of consciousness burns in everyone."

~ Mooji

"They live in freedom who have gone beyond the dualities of life. Competing with no one, they are alike in success and failure and content with whatever comes to them. They are free, without selfish attachments; their minds are fixed in knowledge. They perform all work in the spirit of service, and their karma is dissolved."

~ Bhagavad Gita

"Bliss and misery are but two aspects of an ego-created diversion whose purpose is the validation of our non-existent self. Dead to self, diversions cease to exist; gone is pain and sorrow, bliss and misery, right and wrong.... All that's left is peace and freedom."

~ Adyashanti

"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something—and it is only such love that can know freedom."

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

"As long as anything in this world

means anything to you,

your freedom is only a word.

You are like a bird that is held by a leash;

you can only fly so far."

~ Francis Fenelon

“You need humility to climb to freedom."

~ Rumi