Living Free Quotes

“The trick is to ride the wave,
Fast, wide-open and
in deep Now-magic.
Free, burning fear for fuel
Generous, knowing there is always more where that came from.
Cresting, spray of liquid jewels hanging, shining in the sun and wind.
Flying down the wave in graceful slices.
Rolling, tumbling under, over
Breathless falling, floating into the deep dark beneath.
Rising, face breaks the surface
Laughing
Kneeling, standing
Riding again.
Sunset waits behind the horizon
But daylight begs us to swim
Out beyond
Where our feet can’t touch bottom.
Into the deep wild
Where the next wave can
sweep us higher,
Show us what else is possible
In this marvelous place.”
― Jacob Nordby

“The dark, uncontrolled, primordial part of a person informs them that they are alive. Living free entails accepting a slew of wildness. All wild animals act by instinct. Human instinct and intuitive thought allow us to gain insights and new beliefs, which human rationalization confirms. Logic and intuition work well together, if both sources of mental visualization are drawn from when most apropos. Planning carefully should never replace the spirit for improvisation. Acting recklessly is no substitute for measured evaluation. Nonetheless, a dash of craziness makes most people more endearing than the calculating banker whose ledger driven life causes them to see life in terms of money pouches. Letting go of all conceptions of what is, and dreaming what could be, is a form of delusion. Knowing the difference between fantasy and reality does not mean that a person should disdain imaginative acts. I need to recognize when it is time to stop woolgathering and come back down to reality and work in the pebbly bedrock of the here and now.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“When we draw from the deepest fissures inside us, we become a fresh breeze that lifts the souls of other people. You are the restorative wind in my soul. Late at night, in the underwater current of dreams, I hear your voice whispering to me, a voice of kindness and wisdom beseeching me to become the fullest expression of who I am capable of being. My goal is to become like you: a synthesis of all the good in the world, a person who encircles the rocky strewn bank of human existence and embraces it with a loving and a gentle heart, a person who recognizes the value of living free from anxiety and want, who lives gracefully without desire and attachment.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Live so radiant & free that the sun longs to come sit at your feet to bask in the mentorship of your soul’s experiential gift.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones, Mirrors Of The Sun: Finding Reflections Of Light In The Shittiness Of Life

“He still did not have a home or a job and, frankly, he did not want one. He preferred living free, as he did. It was like living off the land, the way they did in the old days. That’s how he saw it.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“The key to happiness is forgiveness, forgiving ourselves most of all.”
― Michelle Muriel, Westland

“... attaining power is not the dream; it is not what makes or keeps us free in our hearts and minds. We must live free without it. And if God so grants a position of power to fall upon us, we must carry it in humility, utilize it in awe, and wield it carefully guided by the One who appoints it. We are but the vessel; a vase cannot make itself.”
― Michelle Muriel, Westland

“But he knew he had to live his life without being afraid to die. The cage had taught him that.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Flaco the Owl Spreads His Wings