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Quotes About Liberation

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.
~ Stanislav Grof
For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
~ Stanislav Grof
A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.
~ Stanislav Grof
It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974)
~ Stanley Milgram
Ah, canl?l???m her zaman vard? elbette, sadece yaÅŸamaya cesaret edememiÅŸtim, kendimi boÄŸazlam?? ve kendimden gizlemiÅŸtim; fakat ÅŸimdi bütün o bask? alt?ndaki güç patlam??t?, yaÅŸam denen o zenginlik, o tarifsiz kuvvet bana galip gelmiÅŸti.
~ Stefan Zweig
La lectura de Momentos estelares de la humanidad es para el hombre de hoy un bálsamo y un impulso, que tienen como fin liberarnos de lo anodino, del conformismo de una civilización que ya solo es capaz de encontrar lo extraordinario en el deporte o en la virtualidad de "la red".
~ Stefan Zweig
Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.
~ Stefan Zweig
To sum up, salvation to the Gnostic means not reconciliation with an angry God by way of the death of his son, but rather liberation from the stupor induced by earthly existence and an awakening by way of gnosis.
~ Stephan A. Hoeller
She didn't know where she was, and there was nowhere for her to go, and for just one moment, sweat pouring down her face, she felt free.
~ Stephanie Clifford
Women become a little dangerous during this time [menopause]..we can no longer keep a lid on it.
~ Stephanie Marston
It has been said "the truth will make men free". The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring mental emancipation.
~ Anton Szandor LaVey
Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
~ Anthony de Mello
The buddha called suffering a holy truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your suffering and let it reveal to you the way to peace.
~ Nhat Hanh
Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
~ Malcolm X
Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
~ Dogen
Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.
~ Brad Blanton
Truth is that which, when fully realized, sets you free from all bondage and all seeking.
~ Adi Da
I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.
~ Frederick Douglass
As you get older, then you finally come back around full circle when you don't give a s - anymore and you decide I'm going to just tell the truth to everybody. I don't give a s - if anybody likes me.
~ Chelsea Handler
To secure one's freedom the Christian must experience God's light which is God's truth.
~ Watchman Nee
It feels so good to tell the truth.
~ Foxy Brown
Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.
~ Robert Frost