Quotes About Freedom

There is the explanation that is put in the language of the mysteries, that we men are in a kind of prison, and that one must not free oneself or run away. That seems to me an impressive doctrine and one not easy to understand fully. However, Cebes, this seems to me well expressed, that the gods are our guardians and that men are one of their possessions. Or do you not think so?

Do not mistake understanding for realization, and do not mistake realization for liberation.

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. MONTAIGNE

Sometimes even when the cell door is flung open, the prisoner chooses not to escape.

Taking impermanence truly to heart is to be slowly freed from the idea of grasping, from our flawed and destructive view of permanence, from the false passion for security on which we have built everything.

William Blake:   He who binds to himself a Joy, Does the winged life destroy; He who kisses the Joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity's sunrise.7

As the Buddha said: "I have shown you the way to liberation, now you must take it for yourself.

No one wishes to be "rescued" with someone else's beliefs.

William Blake: He who binds to himself a Joy, Does the winged life destroy; He who kisses the Joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity's sunrise.7

Be free of attachment and aversion. Keep your mind pure. And unite your mind with the Buddha.

responsabilité. Parfois, lorsque la porte de la cellule s'ouvre, le prisonnier choisit de ne pas s'évader.

to die "like a new-born child," free of all care and concern about death.

the realization that you are not condemned to your habits, that you can indeed emerge from them, that you can change, and grow more and more free.

since learning to live is learning to let go.

Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life itself reveals again and again the opposite: that letting go is the path to real freedom.

May I take on the suffering of everyone who has this terrible illness. May they be free from this affliction and from all their suffering.

Learning to live is learning to let go.

To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

William Blake: He who binds to himself a Joy, Does the winged life destroy; He who kisses the Joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Good in the Beginning springs from the awareness that we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence, and that to realize it is to be free of ignorance and to put an end, finally, to suffering.

By the power and the truth of this practice: May all sentient beings enjoy happiness and the causes of happiness; May they be free from suffering and the causes of suffering; May they never be separated from the great happiness devoid of suffering, And may they dwell in the great equanimity that is free from attachment and aversion.

To release means to release mind from its prison of grasping

The way to discover the freedom of the wisdom of egolessness, the masters advise us, is through the process of listening and hearing, contemplation and reflection, and meditation.

But you have to let go of it sometime, Gaby. You can't change the past, any of it, and hanging on just eats your life away.