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Quotes About Liberation

By work alone men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnâni, Christ was a Bhakta, but the same goal was reached by both of them. The difficulty is here. Liberation means entire freedom — freedom from the bondage of good, as well as from the bondage of evil.
~ Vivekananda
As Anton Chekhov so memorably put it, 'Others made me a slave but I must squeeze the slave out of me drop by drop.
~ Vivian Gornick
Nekdo lahko prebije vse življenje med štirimi stenami. ?e se ne zave ali ?e ne ob?uti, da je jetnik, tedaj ni jetnik. So pa, ki jim je je?a celotni naš planet. Ki vidijo naskon?no prostranstvo vesoljstva, milijone zvezd in tujih nebesnih teles, do katerih jim je za vekomaj zaprta pot. Ta zavest jih dela najve?je sužnje ?asa in prostora.
~ Unknown
Let all of life be an unfettered howl.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity
~ W. H. Auden
Such an austere religion has never appealed to the masses and today may have less than 4 million adherents. Jains do not believe in a personal creator God. Liberation is through their way of life and entails becoming a monk or nun, which may not be achieved in their present existence. It is nontheistic; the gods are themselves souls on the way to liberation.
~ Unknown
Guru Nanak asked those who considered women impure and incapable of spiritual liberation, mukti: Why do you condemn woman, the one from whom great men and kings are born? It is through despised woman that we are conceived and born; it is to woman that we become engaged and married; woman is our lifelong companion who perpetuated the race. (AG 473)
~ Unknown
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Only in rapid and subtle thought, or in faint accents heard in the quiet of the mind, can the thought of the spirit come to us but little changed; for a mind, that grasps objects simultaneously according to the degree of its liberation, does not think the same thought with the mind that sees objects one after another.
~ W.B. Yeats
In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise
~ W.H. Auden
Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.
~ Unknown
Anybody can be heard. Anyone can express their truths. And communication is possible without the confines of the body.
~ Marianne Williamson
These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.
~ Thomas Frank
There are people who give you the confidence that you're lacking and once you have confidence, you're free and finally you can let out what's inside of you.
~ Carine Roitfeld
Today it was win or lose. But my victory yesterday and the downhill globe boosted my confidence. My record in Cortina was also a liberation.
~ Lindsey Vonn
Bring Down The WallsI will bring down the wallsthat surround me today.I will no longer be kept quietMeek enough to drown today....
~ Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
It's a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
~ Henrik Ibsen
Fear is the strongest prison and courage is the only way out!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.
~ Bodhidharma
Death is simply a shedding of the physical body, like the butterfly coming out of a cocoon. . . . It's like putting away your winter coat when spring comes.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
~ Cornel West
Las décadas transcurridas desde los años sesenta han llevado a cabo una notable tarea en el acabado de la revolución sexual.
~ Philip Roth
grace is the only force in the universe powerful enough to break the chains that enslave generations.
~ Philip Yancey