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1		"Man is created with free will and is master over his acts." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)

2		"As one goes further and further on the path of truth, the freedom becomes greater at every step." Hazrat Inayat Khan, Omega Institute Newsletter, 1985 Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions (Frances Vaughan, Ph.D.)

3		"The freedom of the individual might be defined as the preparedness to be formed by his own eidos, his inner image of wholeness which exists a priori in him. The more the individual becomes sensitive and receptive to his inner image, the more he becomes whole and 'healed'." Gerhard Adler (B. 1904), English Jungian analyst, 'Studies in Analytical Psychology' The Choice Is Always Ours (Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)

4		"The true life-theme of humanity is brotherhood, founded on divine origin (equality) and leading to a free and true expression of divinity (liberty)." The Externalization of the Hierarchy (Alice A. Bailey)

5		"To stand really free is to stand in the clear unimpeded light of the soul, which is basically and intrinsically group consciousness." Glamour, A World Problem (Alice A. Bailey)

6		"Freedom is an essentially spiritual attribute, underlying the entire evolutionary process; this should always be remembered as a strengthening and conditioning reality by all men everywhere. It has survived aeons of opposition from the principle of enslaving selfishness and is largely responsible, at this time, for the struggle in which we are all participating." The Rays and The Initiations (Alice A. Bailey)

7		"Spiritual knowledge and spiritual freedom are born as one." Herbert Fingarette (b. 1921), American philosopher and psychologist, 'The Self in Transformation' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)

8		"Our freedom is so much greater than we have comprehended. We can learn to shift from reality to reality, choosing the one that is most relevant to our needs and purposes at the moment and use our new approach…to nourish our being, love, cherish, and garden ourselves and each other, be at home in our universes, and help save ourselves and the planet." Dr. Lawrence LeShan, 'Alternate Realities' Shamanism: An Expanded View of Reality (Shirley Nicholson, Compiler)

9		"Let us free humanity by right knowledge from all that has bound them and blinded them to their own great inner power, to the treasure-house God has locked within their consciousness." The Human Aura (Kuthumi and Djwal Kul)

10		"The true brotherhood of man can be expressed only by allowing the freedom of man's thought under the banner of cooperation." The 'Unknown' Reality (Jane Roberts)

11		"By no other way than through cognitive free will could humans come to inner freedom and true individuality." The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality (Richard Leviton)

12		"We are not constrained by servile necessity, but act with freewill." St. Ambrose, 'Concerning Jacob', (4th century) The Book of Catholic Quotations (John Chapin, Editor)

13		"Your true nature is freedom." Communion with God (Neale Donald Walsch)

14		"When we truly understand that no one can make us think or feel anything unless we give them permission, we begin to understand the vastness of our freedom. No person or circumstance has the power to change that truth." Worldwide Laws of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles (John Marks Templeton)

15		"In fact, freedom of action is a primary human need." Adventures of Ideas (Alfred North Whitehead)

16		"The qualities of reason, moral conscience, and aesthetic sense make man something more than a mere animal. And he has a still more important gift, freedom, which means he is free to endeavor to actualize these potentialities of reason, rightness, and beauty." The Springs of Creative Living, A Study of Human Nature and God (Rollo May)

17		"Man has freedom of choice and thus the power to create." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)

18		"The greatest thing about us is our freedom, or power to choose, to love." Centering Prayer, Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form (M. Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O.)

19		"The history of the world means the progressive realization of freedom." Dagobert Runes A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1 (Dagobert D. Runes, editor)

20		"Religious traditions generally consider that humans do have free will." The Seven Human Powers: Luminous Shadows of the Self (Shirley J. Nicholson)

21		"There are many levels of freedom. But the highest is that of love." Covenant of the Heart, Meditations of a Christian Hermeticist on the Mysteries of Tradition (Valentin Tomberg)

22		“Freedom is something like the other side of the coin of love: where love is at work, freedom must be presupposed; where the highest love is realized, there, too, is the highest realization of freedom.” Man's Search for Himself: Modern and Biblical Images (Leo Scheffczyk)

23		"A sense of inner freedom is achieved when the personal will is aligned to the Will of the Collective Source." Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self (Alan Oken)

24		"There IS order, but within this order there is freedom – the freedom of creativity, that characteristic of All That Is, that guarantees Its infinite becoming." Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul (Jane Roberts)

25		"Each personality is aware to some extent of the true freedom that belongs to its own inner consciousness." Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul (Jane Roberts)