Best 528 quotes in «liberation quotes» category

But some memories are more important than others,' she says. 'Because some memories belong to more than just one other person...Some memories tell us about who we are. They need to be kept safe so that things can change for all of us

By educating the young, we are building a liberating potential force indirectly.

By bowing down to a body, one will achieve sansar (wordly life); and by bowing down to Soul, one will attain moksha (ultimate liberation).

Call no man lucky until he is dead, but there have been moment of rare satisfaction in the often random and fragmented life of the radical freelance scribbler. I have lived to see Ronald Reagan called “a useful idiot for Kremlin propaganda” by his former idolators; to see the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union regarded with fear and suspicion by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (which blacked out an interview with Miloš Forman broadcast live on Moscow TV); to see Mao Zedong relegated like a despot of antiquity. I have also had the extraordinary pleasure of revisiting countries—Greece, Spain, Zimbabwe, and others—that were dictatorships or colonies when first I saw them. Other mini-Reichs have melted like dew, often bringing exiled and imprisoned friends blinking modestly and honorably into the glare. E pur si muove—it still moves, all right.

Cameroon is not a country of slaves that no man can free.

Channelling is your higher self streaming through in a version your limited mind can accept. There is no such thing as a separate entity, only the perception of it. You are all of it!

Civility must be a natural thing; all the rest is considered etiquette. The path of moksha [ultimate liberation] means there must be simplicity. There should be no ‘ghosts of etiquette’ there.

Comfort...was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison.

Complete departure of kashay (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is Moksha (Liberation). At first, there is the departure of kashays and then there will be ‘that’ [Liberation].

Conservatism is far from what I’m aiming at in proclaiming the establishment of a Sethian left-hand path tradition in the West as one of the first missions of the SLM. In fact, in establishing such a tradition, true to the spirit of sacred transgression and holy subversion that is essential to both Seth and the left-hand path, we are opening a door that enlightens through endangerment, that awakens through risk and peril: this is a radical (from Latin radix, root, implying how deep a change is required) enterprise that is the very opposite of conservatism.” --“From the Eye of the Storm” (Zeena's column as Hemet-Neter Tepi Seth for the SLM), Volume I - Summer Solstice issue (2003): "Building a Sethian Left-Hand Path Tradition in the West.

Corporations and their government minions are capable of anything...just look at the frauds the recent wars became known as. Hundreds of thousands killed in the name of corporate "liberation".

Corporate Responsibility; Environmental Preservation; Consumer Protection; Sex & Race Discrimination (they must mean Sex and Race Liberation).

Create your own community of liberation. From this moment on, direct your most concerted efforts, your best work, and your greatest feats of imagination toward creating the impossible community, and do so first of all precisely where you are, with those around you.

Cuba will be free. I already am.

Dharma (religion) one has to practice to get rid of conflicts are prakrut religions (relative or worldly). And ultimate liberation (moksha) is attained through religion of the Self (atma dharma).

Dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation, to not hurt anyone, to give happiness to others) is an indirect cause for moksha (liberation), and shukladhyan (awareness and contemplation as the Self, Pure Soul) is a direct cause for attaining Moksha (liberation).

Do not be stuck in the bushes, if you want to attain moksha. If your clothing gets stuck in it, let it tear, but you tug on it and move on. Continue to move on, even if it comes off completely.

Do not ever get involved in clashing with anyone’ – this is the biggest key to go to moksha (ultimate liberation).

Do not meddle with Gnani’s words. To do so carries grave liability. If just one word is absorbed and ‘digested’, it will take you all the way to moksha (Ultimate State of Liberation).

Do not try to improve anyone, but try and improve your own self. Even the Tirthankars (Omniscients) had not done egoism of improving others, they had come just to give the gift of liberation.

Don't be afraid of books, even the most dissident, seemingly 'immoral' ones. Culture is a sure bet in life, whether high, low, eclectic, pop, ancient or modern. And I am convinced that reading is one of the most important tools of liberation that any human being, and a contemporary Arab woman in particular, can exploit. I am not saying it is the ONLY tool, especially with all the new alternative - more visual, interactive and hasty - ways of knowledge, learning and growth. But how could I not be convinced of literature's power, when it has been my original emancipator?

Each moment has an unrealized dimension of beauty that only your perspective can liberate.

Each of us repeats Adam’s journey and acknowledges, with the loss of innocence, that he is mortal. Weep and pray, O Arseny. And do not fear death, for death is not just the bitterness of parting. It is also the joy of liberation.” (Laurus, p. 30)

Education is liberation, knowledge is power.

Education is the key for self liberation.

Eternal love’ (sanatan sneha) is indeed moksha [ultimate liberation].

Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people.

Even Story Time was political. Miss Mumbi infused each fairytale with Kenyan flavour. She illustrated these remixes on the blackboard. 'Rapunzel' became 'Rehema,' a fly gabar imprisoned in Fort Jesus. Rehema had an Afro that grew and grew. Her Afro grew bigger than her body and she looked bomb. The Afro became so strong that it burst through the ceiling of the fort. It exploded into the sky and reached the stars. The Afro wrapped itself around the moon and pulled Rehema out of the fort.

Even when dreaming, if the sentient beings who dwell in the three lower realms are witnessed, then at that moment one should pray to sever the continuity of their negativity. —Gathering of Precious Qualities

Every action (‘doing’) causes bondage. ‘Doing’ is not needed for Liberation. For liberation, ‘action’ of Knowledge is required. Action of ignorance [of the self] is bondage. Action done with egoism is known as ignorant-action and the action done without egoism is known as knowledge-action.

Everybody must be given the opportunity for self liberation and development.

Every experience lately felt like an experiment of the body, of its power and limitations. Such experiments created a desire for something more fulfilling. It was a hunger born of rootlessness but he couldn't see that. He couldn't see that true liberation was a strictly DIY process.

Every talent God has hidden in you is not for your own consumption; they are for other people’s liberation.

Every time we break with the past, we break a promise.

Existence has a fragmented definition. Fragmented liberation. Fragmented illumination.

Extraits du poème: A mon âge si ancien... ...Le sel de tes yeux ne peut qu’assécher les vaines moissons De labours dont ne germera pas la graine Que ton âge ancien n’y changera rien. Rien ! Rien ! Rien !

Extraits du poème: Pages d’histoire... ...Je sais, Muse C’est le temps de penser. Lui le poète ; Eux, peuples d’Afrique ! Pour toi, par les nervures de ton crane, Pour les yeux, par les fibres de ton cœur, Par le souffle de l’aorte et des veines de leurs poumons, Par ces bourgeons dont germeront fleurs et fruits du destin, Rien que pour toi, pour eux et nous. ...

Fear is what created the monster in the room, and in order to overcome the many problems and enslavements that we have today, it is not about getting rid of the monster, but about getting rid of the fear.

Forget not the central truth that God is seated in your own heart. Don’t be disheartened by failures at initial stages. Cultivate the spirit of surrender to the workings of His will in you and outside you until you have completely surrendered up your ego-sense, and have known He is in all and He is all, and you and He are one.

For the one whose adverse internal meditation that results in hurting the self (artadhyan) and  adverse internal meditation that results in hurting the self and others (raudradhyan) have ceased, he can attain final liberation in just one more lifetime (ekavtari).

For the one who indulges in illicit sex, the sexuality will make him wander in worldly life. There is no liberation for those who indulge in illicit sex. There is liberation for those who engage in sexual pleasures that are rightfully theirs!

For true liberation, the only war we need to win is the war between presence and ego.

For those who think religious people live in a constant state of fear and quaking, compare Ps 111:10 to Ps 112:7. There, you will find that the person who fears God will not fear anyone, or anything else. This is not living in fear. By choosing one fear, they are liberated from the many fears.

For true liberation, you do not need to fight. You simply have to change your thoughts and drift away from conformity, comfort, security, and certainty of life and embrace and enjoy the possibilities and magnificence of the uncertainty of life.

Freedom from agnanta (ignorance of the one’s own Real Self) is moksha (the ultimate liberation).

Freedom from ignorance of the Self is the intent moksha (bhaav-moksha) and then comes [into effect] the actual moksha (drayva-moksha).

Freedom has an expanding definition.

Freedom is a daring liberation.

Freedom is an inborn destination. Freedom is within our DNA.

Freedom is ability to resist any harmful action.