The "Song of the Free", a classic text of Advaita Vedanta expresses the highest experience of the unfettered Self. Sanskrit text, transliteration and English translation. One of the purest statements of the supreme knowledge of Advaita, by a sage who lived over three thousand years ago.
The important thing is how much less you think of the body, of yourself as matter -- as dead, dull, insentient matter; how much more you think of yourself as shining immortal being. The more you think of yourself as spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free from matter, body and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.
-Swami Vivekananda