We first have to find the way ...

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.
We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.
 Vilayat Inayat Khan

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.
 Vilayat Inayat Khan
Though you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beautifully.
 Vilayat Inayat Khan
In our relationships we need to uphold that aspect of the person which is the real person and the soul beyond their own self-doubt.
 Vilayat Inayat Khan