Quotes About Liberation

The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.

In this culture, God is not the highest entity; mukti or liberation is the highest goal. We are willing to use God as a stepping stone, if needed.

If you live your life burning for the highest possibility, in that burning itself, there is liberation.

Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.

Dance until you shatter yourself.

Karma is your survival and your bondage. And if you handle it right, it can also be your liberation.

The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.

For me dancing is not just moving your arms and legs but basically it's a very spiritual experience. It's part of me and a second nature to me. You can say it is in my blood.

There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.

To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.

Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.

The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.

The sign of an advanced spiritual person is that they don't think they're an advanced spiritual person until after liberation.

Devotion means your limited entity has been dissolved; a much larger possibility has become a living reality for you.

What is it that doesn't allow you to go to moksha? Obstinacy!

Where the 'charging' (of karma) stops, there lies the symptoms (signs) of attaining moksha.

Moksha (ultimate liberation) means that you just have to change your vision.

Absence of conflict creating intents is itself Moksh (Ultimate Liberation).

Trotsky once wrote: How many Aristoteles are herding swine? And how many swineherds are sitting on thrones? Class society impoverishes people, not just materially but psychologically. The lives of millions of human beings are confined to the narrowest limits. Their mental horizons are stunted. Socialism would release all the colossal potential that is being wasted by capitalism.

Gandhi, the greatest political genius of our time, has pointed the way. He was shown of what sacrifices people are capable once they have found the right way. His work for the liberation of India is a living testimony to the fact that a will governed by firm conviction is stronger than a seemingly invincible material power.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

We have emerged from a war in which we had to accept the degradingly low ethical standards of the enemy. But instead of feeling liberated from his standards, and set free to restore the sanctity of human life and the safety of noncombatants, we are in effect making the low standards of the enemy in the last war our own for the present. Thus we are starting toward another war degraded by our own choice.

A human being is a spatially and temporally limited piece of the whole of what we call the universe. He experiences himself and his feelings as separated from the rest, an optical illusion of his consciousness. The quest for liberation from this bondage [or delusion] is the sole object of real religion. Not nurturing the delusion but only overcoming it gives us the attainable measure of inner peace.

A human being is a spatially and temporally limited piece of the whole of what we call the universe. He experiences himself and his feelings as separated from the rest, an optical illusion of his consciousness. The quest for liberation from this bondage [or delusion] is the sole object of real religion. Not nurturing the illusion but only overcoming it gives us the attainable measure of inner peace.