[I]f you can be with the pleasant without chasing after it, with the unpleasant without resisting it, and with the neutral without ignoring it - [...] that is an incredible [...] freedom.

Anxiety can be replaced only by the freedom whose harsh requirements are its cause. Being free requires us to release the brakes that anxiety represents in order to accept and appropriate our proper spiritual fulfillment or perhaps even to recognize, if that is what we in the end believe, that no such prospect is in store.

It's like a rule of life that yer automatically happier when you don't gotta worry about something.

Today, I will know that I don’t have to worry about anything. If I do worry, I will do it with the understanding that I am choosing to worry, and it is not necessary.

The more honest you are, the more open, the less fear you will have, because there's no anxiety about being exposed or revealed to others.

Often, to be free means the ability to deal with the realities of one's own situation so as not to be overcome by them.

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry.

...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING.

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.

Freedom from stress does not necessarily involve giving up anything, but rather being able to let go of anything, when necessary, and know that one will still be all right. It comes from being more independent — not necessarily more solitary, but more reliant on one’s own inner resources for stability.

when all fears of a possible worse thing are passed, there is in some sense peace and even glory.

When the mind is free, everything around it is free.