Quotes About Freedom

What freedom am I being offered when my very South African citizenship is not respected?

When describing why the African National Congress took the fateful decision to give up on nonviolence and take up arms, Mandela writes that they had no choice, that "the oppressor defines the nature of the struggle.

A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor.At a point, one can only fight fire with fire

Now, finally, the earth was hers with no taint of Heaven.

Since joining the National Park Service fourteen years ago, Anna had worked every Fourth of July. ... Winding her way through the masses, trying not to get her fragile frame jostled, she realized she preferred it that way. Working on holidays, one wasn't required to have fun. There was no pressure, no disappointments. And she usually had a wonderful time.

you use your whole body like you did when you played as a kid. Grown-up amusements don't allow for crawling and wriggling, getting good and muddy, and tearing the knees of your pants.

The Truth that sets you free is that you can experience in imagination what you desire to experience in reality, and by maintaining this experience in imagination your desire will become an actuality.

The drama of life is a psychological one in which all the conditions, circumstances, and events of your life are brought to pass by your assumptions. Since your life is determined by your assumptions, you are forced to recognize the fact that you are either a slave to your assumptions or their master. To become the master of your assumptions is the key to undreamed of freedom and happiness.

You are free to choose the concept you will accept of yourself. Therefore, you possess the power of intervention, the power which enables you to alter the course of your future. The process of rising from your present concept to a higher concept of yourself is the means of all true progress. The higher concept is waiting for you to incarnate it in the world of experience.

How would I feel if I were free?

Leave all and follow me." In the face of seemingly mountainous obstacles claim your freedom. The consciousness of freedom is the Father of freedom. It has a way of expressing itself which no man knows. "Ye shall not need to fight in this battle. Set yourself, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you.

You  will rise believing that you are  a free agent, not realizing that every action and event of the day is predetermined by your concept of self as you fell asleep. Your only freedom, then, is your freedom of reaction. You are free to choose how you feel and react to the day's drama, but the drama – the actions, events and circumstances of the day – have already been determined.

Your belief in masters is a confession of your slavery. Only slaves have masters. Change your conception of yourself

Imagination is not entirely untrammelled and free to move at will without any rules to constrain it. In fact, the contrary is true. Imagination travels according to habit. Imagination has choice, but it chooses according to habit. Awake or asleep, man's imagination is constrained to follow certain definite patterns. It is this benumbing influence of habit that man must change; if he does not, his dreams will fade under the paralysis of custom.

Man, who is free in his choice, acts from conceptions which he freely, though not always wisely, chooses. All conceivable states are awaiting our choice and occupancy, but no amount of rationalising will itself yield us the state of consciousness which is the only thing worth seeking.

for everyone who responds to your imaginal act is a shadow. How can a shadow be causative in your world? The moment you give another the power of causation, you have transferred to him the power that rightfully belongs to you. Others are only shadows, bearing witness to the activities taking place in you. The world is a mirror, forever reflecting what you are doing within yourself. If you know this, you are set free and a series of events will unfold within you to reveal the story of salvation.

No puedo estar libre de los resultados de lo que imagino.

La lección aprendida será esta: Hay sólo un Maestro y este Maestro es Dios, el Yo Soy dentro de ellos mismos "Yo Soy el Señor tu Dios que te sacó de la tierra de Egipto; fuera de la casa de la esclavitud". Yo Soy, tu conciencia, es Señor y Maestro y, por otra parte, tu conciencia no es ni Señor ni Maestro. Tú eres el Maestro de todo lo que siempre serás consciente de ser.

Every problem automatically produces its solution in the form of a desire to be free from the problem. Therefore, turn your back upon your problem and focus your attention upon the desired solution by already feeling yourself to be that which you desire. Continue in this belief, and you will find that your prison wall will disappear as you begin to express that which you have become conscious of being.

Por lo tanto, si aceptas al Dios de Israel, comienzas a abandonar Egipto. Este es el inicio del Éxodo. Pero al hombre le resulta difícil mantener el presente; siempre está moviéndose hacia aquí o hacia allá. Parece

Los pensamientos de valor, autoconfianza y decisión se cristalizan en hábitos de seguridad, que se solidifican en circunstancias de éxito, abundancia y libertad.

Right inner speech is essential. It is the greatest of the arts. It is the way out of limitation into freedom. Ignorance of this art has made the world a battlefield and penitentiary where blood and sweat alone are expected, when it should be a place of marvelling and wondering. Right inner talking is the first step to becoming what you want to be.

estado indeseable, pero no olvides liberarte también a ti mismo. Ponte en el estado más glorioso de tener éxito, ser amado, ser feliz. Pruébalo. Te prometo que no te fallará.

When you know that consciousness is the one and only reality–conceiving itself to be something good, bad, or indifferent, and becoming that which it conceived itself to be –you are free from the tyranny of second causes, free from the belief that there are causes outside of your own mind that can affect your life.