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"To the question 'What must I do to free myself?' Zen replies: 'There is nothing you need do since you have never been enslaved and since there is nothing in reality from which you can free yourself." Hubert Benoit, contemporary French philosopher, 'The Supreme Doctrine' The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors) |
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"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) |
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"Freewill resides in Manas [Mind], being the representative of Mahat, the Universal Mind." The Astral Body (Arthur E. Powell) |
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"Every human person, created in the image of God, has the natural right to be recognized as a free and responsible being. All owe to each other this duty of respect." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various) |
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"Sooner or later each being will look up and realize he is already free – and free without the help of an organization or group, but by and for the 'self' as a part of All There Is." Spirit Guides (Iris Belhayes) |
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"We fulfill our destiny by exercising our free will." The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience (Ralph Metzner) |
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“Free choice is what constitutes fundamental human freedom.” Bernard of Clairvaux, Essential Writings (Dennis E. Tamburello, O.F.M.) |
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"We cannot think out the concept of man completely without coming upon the free spirit as the purest expression of human nature." The Essential Steiner (Rudolf Steiner, edited by Robert A. McDermott) |
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"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) |
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"Since the beginning of time,…the vast mass of beings of which we form a part has been tenaciously and tirelessly climbing towards a fuller measure of freedom, of sensibility, of inner vision." Toward the Future (Pierre Teilhard deChardin) |
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"What makes us free is the gnosis of who we were, of what we have become, of where we were, of wherein we have been cast, of whereto we are hastening, of what we are being freed, of what birth really is, of what rebirth really is." 'Excerpta de Theodoto' Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing (Stephan A. Hoeller) |
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"The mystery of the world abides in freedom." Nicolas Berdyaev (1874-1948), Russian philosopher The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers) |
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"Man remains forever free at the centre." The Ancient Wisdom (Annie Besant) |
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"The major liberating force in life is Love." Discipleship in the New Age (Alice A. Bailey) |
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"Free Will is inherent in this creation, and is the birthright and heritage of each soul." A Million Years to the Promised Land (Robert W. Krajenke) |
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"Within man there are great powers – powers of love, of healing, of clarity, that can lead man to liberation." Thucksey Rinpoche, Buddhist spiritual leader Revelations: The Wisdom of the Ages (Paul Roland) |
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"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time." Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 'Summary View of the Rights of British America' Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition (John Bartlett) |
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"Freedom of religion is a tenet of the law and of the Lord that allows for agreement in disagreement, whereby the children of God agree to disagree in love, in respect, and in honor for the many rays of the Son Consciousness that lead to the one path of the ineffable light." The Human Aura (Kuthumi and Djwal Kul) |
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"We were created with free will and willing freedom, a creature noble in God's eyes….we are raised up to glory, a perfect creature in the Spirit." Bernard of Clarivaux, 'Divine Grace and Free Choice' Bernard of Clairvaux, Essential Writings (Dennis E. Tamburello, O.F.M.) |
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"Free will is the power of relishing the divine good which intellect makes known to it." Meister Eckhart (1260-1327) The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics (H. A. Reinhold, editor) |
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"The essence of life and God and love and YOU is freedom!" What God Wants (Neale Donald Walsch) |
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"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) |
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"Almighty God hath created the mind free." Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd American President, 'The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom', 1779 The Great Thoughts (George Seldes, compiler) |
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"Individuals have personal responsibility to choose in freedom what seems right for them." James H. Hindes, 'The Hierarchies' Angels and Mortals, Their Co-Creative Power (Maria Parisen, compiler) |
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"To be free, we have only to discover our true nature." Revelations: The Wisdom of the Ages (Paul Roland) |
This body of quotes compiled by
JoAnn Kite