Liberation Quotes

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.

Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith.

We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by loving kindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it.

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.

By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.

The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.

The road to salvation is through truth.

There is salvation only for the brave.

If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.