How to break free?

"God is not attained by a process of addition in the soul, but by a process of subtraction." You don't do anything to be free, you drop something. Then you're free.

"I leave you free to be your self, to think your thoughts indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations behave in ways that you decide are to your liking" say those words and you will notice something else. The person automatically ceases to be special and important to you when you are able to honestly say those words and he or she becomes important in themselves the way a sunset or a symphony are lovely in themselves. The way a tree is special in itself and not for the fruit or the shade that it can offer you. Your beloved then will belong not to you but to everyone or to no one. Like the sunrise and the tree. Test it be saying those words again. In saying those words you have set yourself free, you are now ready to love.

That is probably the most terrifying thing a human being can undertake to do - expose himself to reality. Unprotected, unguided by any formula. To walk away from the world and into the desert as the prophets and mystics did is not to walk away from human company, but to walk away from human formulations then even though you are surrounded by people you are truly and utterly alone. What an awesome solitude, that solitude, that aloneness is silence. It is only in this silence that you will see and the moment you see the sheer concreteness and wholeness and fluidity of what you see will cause you to abandon every concept which can only portrait reality in an abstract fragmented way.