Best 125 quotes in «bondage quotes» category

To move from bondage to freedom requires a shift in viewpoint; the purpose of prayer is to affect this shift; to take you from someone in need to someone who knows all needs are met in G-d.

To run the worldly life, Egoism is not required. To bind [karma] for the next life, Egoism is required. If one doesn’t want the bondage for the next life, then also it is possible to conduct the worldly life without egoism. Entire worldly life is in the ‘discharge’ form. So it will continue to ‘discharge’ by itself.

We breathe too fast to be able to grasp things in themselves or to expose their fragility. Our panting postulates and distorts them, creates and disfigures them, and binds us to them. I bestir myself, therefore I emit a world as suspect as my speculation which justifies it; I espouse movement, which changes me into a generator of being, into an artisan of fictions, while my cosmogonic verve makes me forget that, led on by the whirlwind of acts, I am nothing but an acolyte of time, an agent of decrepit universes. (...) If we would regain our freedom, we must shake off the burden of sensation, no longer react to the world by our senses, break our bonds. For all sensation is a bond, pleasure as much as pain, joy as much as misery. The only free mind is the one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

We remain stuck when we forget our original nature, and our original nature is pure and limitless, it isn’t bound or attached to our past, mistakes, or circumstances; it is free from emotion, it is clear, it is light. It is ever changing and because it is ever changing it is free from bondage – mental, physical, emotional and spiritual bondage.

What difference, being a pawn for the Light or a pawn for the Dark?" There was a short silence. "There is a great difference," said Cadvan softly. "One difference is that for the Dark, certainly you are a pawn. For the Light, you are a free human being, free to make mistakes, to do wrong, even. You are free to choose, whether or not you believe it." "Funny idea of freedom." "It is the difference between committment and slavery," Cadvan said. "Between working for what you hope for and believe in the depths of your heart, and what someone else forces you to do.

What a world it is, Cora thought, that makes a living prison into your only haven. Was she out of bondage or in its web: how to describe the status of a runaway?

What’s the most difficult thing you can do? Live simply. ‘Cause in order to be self-sufficient, you got to get well near everybody else to work for you.

What is absolute humility (param vinaya)? It is on the one who has not disrespected anyone in the slightest! Absolute humility lies where there is no dispute, no difference of opinion or any law. Law is bondage.

When someone finds his or her mind is not free or in mental bondage, such a person might as well not be free physically.

When I want to.” He ran his finger over her lips. “You don’t get a vote, honey.

Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind

Being aware of the bondage is enough to free you from its clutches.

Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.

While in bondage, the strength of the mind is not put into full action in order to maximize its full potential.

Without a measure of anger against injustice, a person, a society or a whole nation would have to live perpetually under the bondage of injustice.

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment.

Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.

Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Freedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it's a truth encounter.

Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.

For me, bondage makes me feel powerless and annoyed. It's like, can you untie me?

I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.

His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.

He who asserts he is free, shall be free. He who says he is bound, bound he shall remain.

If you dare declare that you are free, free you are this moment. If you say you are bound, bound you will remain.

If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage.

If we, who have been redeemed, don't say what we have been redeemed from, how are those in the same bondage going to even know that there is hope.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change

If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

I knew absolutely nothing about bondage. I'd always presumed it was just an inventive way of keeping your partner from going home.

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

It wasn't often you ran into bondage/Elvis/whorehouse-themed vampire club

It is all up to us. We are the ones who have to keep looking at our thoughts, looking for the nature of our mind. there is nobody else in control of our lives, our experiences, our freedom or our bondage.

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

If you're involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it's bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.

... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.

it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.

Music isn't seeking to comment on the experience or transmit some finding about it - it is only seeking to express it. The vicarious experience is much more accessible. We all recognize the sound of that howling, because we all have a similar howling inside of us, however we heed it or hold it or muzzle it or repress it or live in bondage to it.

Marriage. Don't be pressured into it. Is the fear of loneliness really greater than the fear of bondage?

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.