Do not be afraid of freedom from desire and fear. It enables you to live a life so different from all you know, so much more intense and interesting … - Nisargadatta Maharaj

(...) one is always free. You are both conscious and free to be conscious. Nobody can take this away from you. (…)

You cannot be alive, for you are life itself.

Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem. By flowing with life I mean acceptance — letting come what comes and go what goes. Desire not, fear not, observe the actual, as and when it happens, for you are not what happens, you are to whom it happens. Ultimately even the observer you are not. You are the ultimate potentiality of which the all-embracing consciousness is the manifestation and expression.