It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.

We recognize it as an act of bravery and beauty, of daring and defiance. And we look forward to a time when that courage is no longer needed, when all people in all places can feel the freedom and the joy that we feel here today.

oh, this happiness is strong stuff. It's marvelously liberating.

In the long run there is no more liberating, no more exhilarating experience than to determine one’s position, state it bravely, and then act boldly. Action brings with it its own courage, its own energy, a growth of self-confidence that can be acquired in no other way

It’s not enough, but every time we feel the beauty of having a life-giving space, it feels like liberation.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

To embrace the fullness of possible experience without fear strikes me as heroic, impossibly heroic.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Courage is exhilarating.

For sometimes it is an act of bravery even to live.

It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.

There's something spectacularly freeing about acknowledging that one has both resources and limitations, and that both of these give shape to one's life.

When one is aligned with the purpose of service, acts that seem exceptionally courageous to others are a matter of course.
When one experiences the world as abundant, then acts of generosity are natural, since there is no doubt about continued supply.
When one sees other people as reflections of oneself, forgiveness becomes second nature, as one realizes “But for the grace of God, so go I.”
When one appreciates the order, beauty, mystery, and connectedness of the universe, a deep joy and cheerfulness arises that nothing can shake.
When one sees time as abundant and life as infinite, one develops superhuman patience.
When one lets go of the limitations of reductionism, objectivity, and determinism, technologies become possible that the science of separation cannot countenance.
When one lets go of the story of the discrete and separate self, amazing intuitive and perceptual capabilities emerge from lifelong latency.

It is freedom that allows ordinary people to do extraordinary things.