7,738 Quotes About Freedom

When no place is home, everywhere is.

There is no difference between buddhas and sentient beings other than their scope of mind. What is called mind, consciousness, or awareness, is of a single identity. The mind of a sentient being is limited. The mind of a buddha is all-pervasive. So develop a scope of mind that is like the sky, which has no limit to the east, west, north, or south.

Freedom is only found in faith.

The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves.

Q: What is nirvana and do many people attain it?Lama: When you develop your powers of concentration such that you can integrate your mind into single-pointed concentration, you will gradually diminish your ego’s emotional reactions until they disappear altogether. At that point, you transcend your ego and discover an everlasting, blissful, peaceful state of mind. That is what we call nirvana. Many people have attained this state and many more are well on their way to it.

One night in a meditation vision Avalokitesvara the Hearer and Answerer of Prayer said to me ‘You are empowered to remind people that they are utterly free’ so I laid my hand on myself to remind myself first and then felt gay, yelled ‘Ta,’ opened my eyes, and a shooting star shot.

The root of all that exists,Samsara and nirvana, is one's own mind.Primordially, mind is emptiness.Merge into the sky-like absolute expanse,Empty, luminous, beyond clinging.Outside, inside; eyes open or closed,Day, night; asleep or awake:No difference.During practice, after practice,Mind, appearances:Blend them.Continuously, without wavering,Merge completely with this vibrant, sky-like state.

Nullify reality with sensuality.

The biggest problem with democracy is that the weight of a vote is not determined by the degree of the voter’s intelligence, ignorance, or stupidity.