Quotes About Liberation

Ahora me entregaré. Ahora me soltaré. Ahora por fin liberaré el retenido, el violentamente rechazado deseo de ser consumida. Juntos galoparemos por desiertas colinas, en las que la golondrina hunde las puntas de las alas en oscuras lagunas y las columnas erectas se conservan enteras. A la ola que se estrella en la playa, a la ola que lanza su blanca espuma hasta los más lejanos confines de la tierra, arrojo mis violetas, mi ofrenda a Percival

as perhaps at midnight, when all boundaries are lost

Todo puede suceder cuando la feminidad ya no sea una ocupación protegida.

What he had really wanted to do was to tear a hole in his world and escape.

Tenderness rounds out true triumph, gentleness lubricates genuine liberation: emotions that are not diagnostic of glory or passion in dreams.

No bra," he said against her mouth. "Thank you. I hate those things. Dumbest human invention. Ever.

They gave it the seductive name Al Fatat—"Young Girl."* Its aim was the liberation of the Arab world from Turkey's Ottoman Empire. More important, it represented the first manifestation of a renascent Arab nationalism that disputed Jewish claims to Palestine for half a century.

but you're beginning to get a taste of what it is like to be free and clear, wholehearted and effortless.

Freedom, I am beginning to realize, means not even being aware you're free.

May you realize your own freedom.

Man is preoccupied with freedom yet laden with handicaps. The breadth of his activity and experience is narrowed by the limitations of his relatively weak, sluggish body. The racehorse, by virtue of his awesome physical gifts, freed the jockey from himself.

As he walked over the bridge, Louie glanced back. Some of the guards and camp officials stood in the compound, watching them go. A few of the sickest POWs remained behind, awaiting transport the next day. Fitzgerald stayed with them, unwilling to leave until the last of his men was liberated.*

All these girls had thrown away their corsets, claiming liberation, but apparently, they weren't supposed to eat.

And they never let him go.

declare and ordain as free and quit of every obligation of captivity, subjection, and slavery, my captured

declare and ordain as free and quit of every obligation of captivity, subjection, and slavery, my captured slave Enrique, mulatto, native of the city of Malacca, of the age of twenty-six years more or less

For instance, many people are so afraid of facing the UNKNOWN that they cling to various paradigms: a given religion, philosophy, psychology, or political party. When these people decide to take a naked look at their beliefs, suddenly the enormous amount of energy expended in shoring up the paradigm is liberated to manifest one's desire.

He was within a few hours of giving his enemies the slip forever.

By creating a society in which all people, of all colors, were granted freedom and citizenship, the Haitian Revolution forever transformed the world. It was a central part of the destruction of slavery in the Americas, and therefore a crucial moment in the history of democracy, one that laid the foundation for the continuing struggles for human rights everywhere. In this sense we are all descendents of the Haitain Revolution, and responsible to these ancestors.

Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Tanzimattan bu yana Türk ayd?n?n?n al?nyaz?s? iki kelimede dü?ümleniyordu: aldanmak ve aldatmak. Senaryoyu ba?kalar? haz?rlam??t?, biz sadece birer oyuncuyduk. Nesiller bir ütopyan?n kurban? olmu?lard?… Avrupa'y? tan?mak gaflet; Avrupa'y? tan?yan ülkeisnden kopuyor. Bu lanet çemberinden nas?l kurtulaca??z? (Ma?aradakiler, s,323)

We need only drop the effort to secure and solidify ourselves and the awakened state is present. But we soon realize that just "letting go" is only possible for short periods. We need some discipline to bring us to "letting be." We must walk a spiritual path. Ego must wear itself out like an old shoe, journeying from suffering to liberation.

However, nobody is going to do it for you. You have to begin by yourself, so maybe you should be startled. You should be shocked when you realize that you have been trapped and imprisoned, because then you might do something about it. You have been too naive. You have enjoyed your samsaric life too much. You should have been shocked a long time ago!

Sacred outlook is not only about thinking everything is good; it is the absence of imprisonment. You begin to experience freedom that is intrinsically good, almost unconditionally free. So the vajra world you are entering is basically good, unconditionally free, fundamentally glorious and splendid.