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Freedom Quotes by Tara Brach
- Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.
- Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
- Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
- In any moment, no matter how lost we feel, we can take refuge in presence and love. We need only pause, breathe, and open to…
- When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.
- I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced…
- Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom…
- Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns...We may…
- You have a unique body and mind, with a particular history and conditioning. No one can offer you a formula for navigating all situations and…
- Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to truth can deepen. There’s less identification with the self in the story…
- The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.
- The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
More Freedom Quotes
- Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That… — Rowan Atkinson
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if… — Margaret Atwood