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"A bird in a nest is secure, but that is not why God gave it wings."
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"I have extremely little courage myself, much less than you; but I have found that whenever, after a long struggle, I have screwed my courage up to do something I always felt much freer & happy after it."

"When you understand that [in reality] the bitter fruit [unfavourable result] is sweet and the sweet fruit [favourable result] is bitter, then you will go to moksha [the ultimate liberation]!"

"Don't let the inconsequential fairy tales stand in your way! You do what makes you happy, no matter what."

"Bowing down in prayer to a body results in worldly life and bowing down in prayer to Soul results in attaining moksha (final liberation)."

"When does one qualify (for moksha)? It is when he never has any conflict in the worldly life."

"This was a freedom essential to the health even of a character so little susceptible of morbid influences as that of Phoebe. The old house [with dry rot in its structure and perhaps also in its inhabitants], ...it was not good to breathe no other atmosphere that that."

"And oft the blessed time foretellsWhen all men shall be free;And musical, as silver bells,Their falling chains shall be."

"They can fatten me up. They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again. They can design dream weapons that come to life in my hands, but they will never again brainwash me into the necessity of using them. I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despite being one myself."

"If God were the doer, when will there be an end?! (If) God is the creator and he made us, we become his toys, so that is the end? When will we become liberated? No one is your superior and no one is your 'underhand' (subservient to you)."

"There comes a time in our life when we make ourselves a prisoner, we have to do everything possible to break ourselves free."
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"Wisdom is the greatest speaker in history; nature, second. Folly is the worst speaker in history; fools, second."
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