Quotes About Liberation

...rush out in the rain to be soaked with the sky.

Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.

What I most want is to spring out of this personality, then to sit apart from that leaping. I've lived too long where I can be reached.

i am the wind. one day, i will fly free

The downside is that by recognizing our total dependence on powers beyond ourselves, we can be filled with an overwhelming sense of religious obligation and guilt at not fulfilling it. One way out of this sense of inadequacy is to become an atheist. If everything happens automatically and unconsciously, if there is no purpose or providence in the world, then there is nothing to feel grateful for. But this liberation comes at a high price. Being ungrateful is often accompanied by unhappiness.

I knew I was free; that I had always been free; held back only by my own weakness, lacking impulse and the imagination to break away from an existence that had become habitual for years.

I like pressing that emergency button on bus doors to escape.

After the liberation, when the American Army freed me—I was working in a Nazi slave-labor camp—I went back to our home in Brno. I looked for my family. But they were all dead. Then I looked for the families of my friends. Judith, dear, it grieves me to tell you that your family, too, were all exterminated.

Arab-speaking Jews, like Moshe Dayan, had been sent, disguised as Arabs, on dangerous missions to help liberate Vichy-held Syria and Lebanon, and to Iraq to help quell the pro-Nazi uprising.

Knowledge [...] no longer consists in a manipulation of man and nature as opposite forces, nor in the reduction of data to mere statistical order, but is a means of liberating mankind from the destructive power of fear, pointing the way toward the goal of the rehabilitation of the human will and the rebirth of faith and confidence in the human person.

Freedom is such a gift.

You can be as FREE as you WANT to be - what does that look like for YOU?

The free being is only that which makes itself free.

Even a ship can become a prison if all you see around you are bars.

Everybody must realize that this battle will be the mother of all battles, and that God wanted us to wage the battle of liberating the nation and humanity, the battle of liberating Jerusalem and the holy shrines on the land of Iraq.

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

Freedom—or mukti or moksha—is seen as the natural longing in every human being and our ultimate destination.

As your likes and dislikes become stronger, as your identifications become stronger with one thing or another, all that you are doing is excluding existence. If I say, "I like this very much," in a big way I am excluding the rest of existence at that moment. So the stronger it becomes, the deeper the exclusion becomes. The very process of liberation is to include, not to exclude. In exclusion, you become trapped. In inclusion, you become liberated.

Any fool will seek liberation when he is suffering. It takes enormous intelligence to seek liberation when everything is going well.

No boundary, no burden. This is the turnaround in human consciousness that needs to take place. Once this happens, it is not that the cosmos begins to happen your way. Instead, what you are becomes cosmic. This is not transcendence; this is homecoming.

Most people cannot handle freedom. They are always trying to bind themselves, but only talking , mouthing freedom all the time because freedom needs courage , freedom needs a certain madness

You have known the pleasure and the convenience of modern science; so why the Dhyanalinga? It is because I want you to know the power, the liberation of another kind of science, the inner science, the yogic science through which you can become the master of your own destiny. That is why the Dhyanalinga. A science like this gives you absolute mastery over life itself.

Only that person who does not carry the previous moment to this moment, only that person is free from everything, and that quality will be felt everywhere.

Whether you fly or choose to remain in the limitations of the cage—let that be a conscious choice.