Quotes About Freedom

We all have choices. Some are harder than others. What I'm hearing is that you feel trapped. Sounds like you're the only one who can change that. Just make sure you don't latch on to the first life raft that comes along. It wouldn't be fair to anyone to find yourself trapped in some other way, now would it?

Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.

When we free ourselves from physical disabilities, emotional disturbances, and mental distractions, we open the gates to our soul.

If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them.

Yoga is the teacher of yoga; yoga is to be understood through yoga. So live in yoga to realize yoga; comprehend yoga through yoga; he who is free from distractions enjoys yoga through yoga.

There is nevertheless a chance that we can break free from the imprisoning past and individually train ourselves to control this reactive mechanism in such a way that the old patterns are not repeated; new things truly can happen, and real changes can in fact take place. This dawning clarity is, in essence, the path of yoga.

Freedom, that is to say direct experience of samadhi, can be attained only by disciplined conduct and renunciation of sensual desires and appetites. This is brought about through adherence to the 'twin pillars' of yoga, abhyasa and vairagya. Abhyasa

To get freedom, you have to bear the pain. this is equally true in life.

There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all people's lives, whether they practice yoga or not. If we can understand how our mind and heart works, we have a chance to answer the question, "Why do I keep making the same old mistakes?

Does not the American Declaration of Independence talk of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness? If a yogi had written that, he would have said, Life, Happiness, and the Pursuit of Liberty. Sometimes happiness may bring stagnation, but if freedom comes from disciplined happiness, there is the possibility of true liberation.

Everything can be a trap. A hermit goes to a cave to get out of all worldly attachments and then gets attached to the cave. If we miss the point, then everything becomes a trap.

When I was six or seven, I would feel I was inside a box of earth and sky, and I would weep. Once I asked my mother: "Take me out of this box of earth and sky." She said, "I can't." Then I said, "I'm going."

The Self is beyond birth, death, gender, class, and religion -- only the body wears those labels.

Dr. Emmett Brown Roads Where we're going we don't need roads.

To be free-minded and cheerfully disposed, at hours of meat, and of sleep, and of exercise, is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

A firewall cant stop an idea

When other sources of leisure become possible, the one use of slavery is past. But all its evils remain, and even grow worse.

If France had more men of firm will, quiet composure, with a suspicion of enormous principle and a taste for moderate improvement: if a Whig party, in a word, were possible in France, France would be free.

I am a rank individualist.

Hispanics don't want more programs to make them comfortable in their poverty. What Hispanics really want is more opportunity: the freedom to work, leave poverty behind, and rise into the ranks of the middle class and beyond.

I don't think I would change really anything about rap. Rap don't have no limits to it, and I like it like that.

Punk is all about doing what you want and being yourself. And that's what rap is too.

My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression.

It seems like music gets put in this hub where you have to rap about this, and the minute you do something else, it's like you changing. Nah, I'm being creative.