7,738 Quotes About Freedom

Irresponsible freedom is mere derangement.

Mount Shasta, California on a warm, late August morning, 1983. Me, alone in the woods, lying in a sleeping bag, looking up at the sky through the forest of trees. Complete stillness, outside and within. I had done it! Burned all my bridges, for real.

Why and how does one exchange self-will and autonomy for guidance and community--and what are the healthy and appropriate boundaries for doing so?

It is as natural to feel free as it is to feel hungry and thirsty.

To hell with the State! To hell with the Church! To hell with all the forces of repression!

Love can be free, but sex always comes with a price.

The masculine and feminine dynamics are restrictive. Elevate into the sensual for absolute freedom.

You cannot be aware of yourself, for you are awareness itself. How can a witness witness itself? That is like trying to see your own eyes without a reflection, or cut a knife with the tip of its own blade—it is impossible. The subject can only observe the object; it cannot make an object out of itself. But by the very act of observing, you indirectly know yourself as the observer, as the subject. No witnessing of the witness is needed to prove its existence.

Why would you want to join a club that does not want you as a member? If a club does not want you as a member, start your own club.