Becoming Free Quotes

• Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Faithful, Excess

  "Stranger in the Village", Harper's, October 1953.

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• As long as you do not feel the serenity in the body, in each and every joint, there is no chance for emancipation. You are in bondage. So while you are sweating and aching, let your heart be light and let it fill your body with gladness. You are not only becoming free, but you are also being free. What is not to be glad about? The pain is temporary. The freedom is permanent.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Pain, Heart, Light

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom".

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• The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.

  Joshua Nkomo

  Freedom, Life Lesson, Winning

  Joshua Nkomo, SAPES Trust (2001). “Nkomo: the story of my life”

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• I knew early on that we needed to settle the food problem because if you can grow food it's empowering. In fact I believe growing food is one of the most dangerous occupations on the face of this earth because you're in danger of becoming free.

  Jules Dervaes

  Believe, Empowering, Growing

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• Christian life is not realized in developing the personality or in shaping human community and somehow changing the world but in turning away from the world and becoming free of it.

  Rudolf Bultmann

  Christian, Personality, Community

  Rudolf Karl Bultmann (1985). “New Testament and Mythology: And Other Basic Writings”

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