Quotes About Liberation

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

the realm we are in—samsara—is an ocean of unbearable suffering. There is one way, and one way only, out of samsara's ceaseless round of birth and death, which is the path to liberation.

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

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.

The word "bardo" is commonly used to denote the intermediate state between death and rebirth, but in reality bardos are occurring continuously throughout both life and death, and are junctures when the possibility of liberation, or enlightenment, is heightened.

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.

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

You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again.

Look there above the center, where the flag is waving bright; We are going out of slavery, we are bound for freedom's light; We mean to show Jeff Davis how the Africans can fight...

one knee, with a groan, I released my hold upon his throat

rescued in the month of January, 1853

Choosing self-love challenges the collective paradigm of guilt and shame that has controlled us for thousands of years. If we go the route of the ego, we'll never feel worthy of self-love. If we choose to live our Spirit, we'll be instantly liberated.

Someone asked Sophocles, How do you feel now about sex Are you able to have a woman He replied, Hush man most gladly indeed am I rid off it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and savage master.

In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains.

The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.

My meditation Is my mind's Instant ignorance-illumination And Bondage-liberation.

His efforts has made load of my karma been removed, and I am now free of karma.

It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.

If you have contact with pure consciousness even for a moment, you are liberated.

Exhale the remnants/Of wounds that steal your freedom./No more prisons. Breathe.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.