“A good day is a day when you know how to smile ... because you are free to feel and live the way you want ...”
“Be as you are. (p. 118)”
“Despite all this, the wilderness calls to me more strongly with each passing year. Those distant mountains, always lingering in my peripheral vision, and the ancient forests. Immortal lungs of the earth.”
“I feel as though I am still out there in the wastelands as I head home. My mind is preoccupied with wondering what lies beyond the soldiers and the wire, the blistering sands and the endless sea – everything we know. I crave a different kind of freedom. The kind alcohol cannot give me.”
“(Ramana Maharshi s advice on depression) This depression must be traced to its origin. The origin is the wrong identification of the body with the Self. The disease is not of the Self. It is of the body. But the body does not come and tell you that it is possessed by the disease. It is you who say so. Why? Because you have wrongly identified yourself with the body. The body itself is a thought. Be as you really are. There is no reason to be depressed. (p. 360)”
“For humans the idea of freedom is all too often a means of deceiving themselves. And although freedom is among the most exalted of feelings, so is the illusion of freedom among the most exalted of illusions.”
“Does the realized being tell you that the world is full of pain? It is the other one who feels the pain and seeks the help of the wise saying that the world is painful. Then the wise one explains from his experience that if one withdraws within the Self, there is an end of pain. The pain is felt so long as the object is different from oneself. But when the Self is found to be an undivided whole, who and what is there to feel? The realized mind is the Holy Spirit and the other mind is the home of the devil. For the realized being this is the Kingdom of Heaven: „The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.“ That Kingdom is here and now. (p. 387)”
“People will say with a straight face that having one choice for dear leader is tyranny – but having two is freedom.”
“If freedom is short of weapon we compensated with deals. -Post 2020”
“Safe in his cage, she repeated. Who wants to be safe in a cage?”
“I am an animal, you see that. I don t have the words, they didn t teach me the words. I don t know how to think, the bastards didn t let me learn how to think. But if you really are… all-powerful… all-knowing… then you figure it out! Look into my heart. I know that everything you need is in there. It has to be. I never sold my soul to anyone! It s mine, it s human! You take from me what it is I want… it just can t be that I would want something bad! Damn it all, I can t think of anything, except those words of his… HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY, FREE, AND NO ONE WILL GO AWAY UNSATISFIED!”
“No matter what others think, what you have experienced only matters in life.”
“The thing about freedom is that it defines its own borders.”
“They came for my neighbour and I stayed silent because it wasn t me they looked for. Then they came for me and all I heard was silence...”
“Enslavement to a cause that only enriches the lives of a few elite ultimately enslaves and entangles many. It is like moving from one slave plantation to another slave plantation with the hopes the grass is greener and that the trees provide a better breeze and shade while still wearing the same shackles.”
“Until The Soul Attains God, Life Is Incomplete.”
“Presenting the Palestinian struggle for national liberation as a religious issue is in fact the culmination of oppression of the Palestinian people. The national liberation struggle of Cashmerians was similarly sabotaged and isolated all over the world.”