Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.

To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.

There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.

That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.

Enlightenment is the mind that is open to anything, but attached to nothing. That is freedom. No values, no resentment, no grudges. Not carrying the past along with you. Not carrying memories from the past that are hurtful and shameful and embarrassing. Just let all that go and you are living in enlightenment, and you are free for everything.

We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.

I let go of all expectations. People, places and things are free to be themselves, and I am free to be me.

All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past hanging around you, with no future projection, you are free from life and death, you are free from body and mind. You are free - simply free - you are freedom.

I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself. Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.